add "Rewrite TorDNSEL" to our project wishlist
Roger Dingledine commited on 2010-03-18 00:00:45
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+<b>Rewrite TorDNSEL, this time with a spec!</b> |
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+<br /> |
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+Priority: <i>High</i> |
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+<br /> |
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+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i> |
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+<br /> |
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+Skill Level: <i>Medium</i> |
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+<br /> |
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+Likely Mentors: <i>Mike, Roger, Sebastian</i> |
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+<br /> |
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+The <a href="<page tordnsel/index>">Tor DNS Exit List</a> is a Haskell |
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+program that serves three purposes. First, it provides an rbl-style DNS |
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+interface for people to look up whether a given IP address is (or has |
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+recently been) a Tor exit relay. Second, it actively builds circuits over |
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+the Tor network and connects back to itself, to learn the actual exit |
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+IP address of each relay — some Tor relays exit from a different |
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+address than they advertise in their descriptor. Third, it exports a <a |
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+href="http://exitlist.torproject.org/exitAddresses">set of conclusions</a> |
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+so that <a href="https://check.torproject.org/">check.torproject.org</a> |
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+can guess for you whether your browser is configured to point to Tor. |
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+<br /> |
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+This project would make use of <a |
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+href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torflow/trunk/README">TorFlow</a>, |
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+a set of Python scripts to interact with Tor; the project would be |
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+to figure out how our Tor Exit Checker should actually work, and then |
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+build it — probably in Python since Torflow is in Python. The main |
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+goal is to reduce false positives as much as possible, by making sure |
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+that it learns about new relays as soon as possible, making sure that |
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+the testing phase concludes quickly, and making sure the answers get |
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+passed to the Check script quickly. As a bonus, we should standardize |
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+(specify) the format of the exitAddresses file, and rewrite the <a |
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+href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/check/trunk/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py">Tor |
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+Bulk Exit List</a> script to use that file rather than its current |
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+horrible DNS hacks. |
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+<br /> |
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+You can fetch the <a href="git://git.torproject.org/git/tordnsel">latest |
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+tordnsel</a> via git. |
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+</li> |
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<b>Improving Tor's ability to resist censorship</b> |
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