tor-webwml.git

@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     extents, but the chief architects are Nick Mathewson and Roger Dingledine.

     </p>

+    <!--

     <p>

     <b>Project Ideas:</b><br />

     <i><a href="#resistCensorship">Improving Tor's ability to resist

@@ -334,6 +335,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     <i><a href="#user-space-transport">Integrating Tor with user-space

     transport protocol libraries</a></i>

     </p>

+    -->

     <a id="project-jtor"></a>

     <h3><a href="https://github.com/brl/JTor/wiki">JTor</a> (<a

@@ -359,11 +361,13 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     being worked on by Erinn Clark.

     </p>

+    <!--

     <p>

     <b>Project Ideas:</b><br />

     <i><a href="#auditTBB">Audit Tor Browser Bundles for data leaks</a></i><br />

     <i><a href="#usabilityTesting">Usability testing of Tor</a></i>

     </p>

+    -->

     <a id="project-tails"></a>

     <h3><a href="https://tails.boum.org/">The Amnesic Incognito Live System</a> (<a

@@ -379,6 +383,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     and still under very active development.

     </p>

+    <!--

     <p>

     <b>Project Ideas:</b><br />

     <i><a href="#tailsHiddenServicePetnames">Petname system for Tor hidden

@@ -386,6 +391,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     <i><a href="#tailsServer">Tails server: Self-hosted services behind

     Tails-powered Tor hidden services</a></i>

     </p>

+    -->

     <a id="project-torsocks"></a>

     <h3><a href="http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/">Torsocks</a> (<a

@@ -430,11 +436,13 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     pushing the project forward.

     </p>

+    <!--

     <p>

     <b>Project Ideas:</b><br />

     <i><a href="#vidaliaStatusEventInterface">Tor Controller Status Event Interface for Vidalia</a></i><br />

     <i><a href="#vidalia-hidden-service-panel">Torrc plugin and improved hidden service configuration panel</a></i>

     </p>

+    -->

     <a id="project-arm"></a>

     <h3><a href="http://www.atagar.com/arm/">Arm</a> (<a

@@ -516,12 +524,14 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     block Tor.

     </p>

+    <!--

     <p>

     <b>Project Ideas:</b><br />

     <i><a href="#obfsproxy-new-transports">New and innovative pluggable transports</a></i><br />

     <i><a href="#obfsproxy-scanning-measures">Defensive bridge active scanning measures</a></i><br />

     <i><a href="#obfsproxy-fuzzer">Fuzzer for the Tor protocol</a></i>

     </p>

+    -->

     <a id="project-thandy"></a>

     <h3>Thandy (<a

@@ -742,6 +752,62 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     <ol>

+    <a id="improveTorbirdy"></a>

+    <li>

+    <b>Improving TorBirdy</b>

+    <br>

+    Priority: <i>High</i>

+    <br>

+    Effort Level: <i>High</i>

+    <br>

+    Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>

+    <br>

+    Likely Mentors: <i>Sukhbir, Jacob</i>

+    <p>

+    TorBirdy is Torbutton for Thunderbird, Icedove and related Mozilla mail

+    clients.

+    </p>

+    <p>

+    TorBirdy is under active development and is available from <a

+    href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy">our wiki</a>

+    and <a

+    href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/">mozilla's

+    addons site</a>.

+    </p>

+    

+    <p>

+    The goal of this project is to improve TorBirdy by:

+    </p>

+    

+    <ul>

+      <li>

+        Writing a Thunderbird patch to plug known leaks. We have already <a

+        href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776397">submitted a

+        patch to Thunderbird</a> but we anticipate there will be much more work

+        required before it is accepted, possibly involving rewriting the entire

+        patch; this appears trivial, but it is not, as we are proposing a

+        completely new privacy-safe message-ID header generation algorithm for

+        Thunderbird.

+      </li>

+      <li>

+        Implementing a JavaScript HTTP proxy (see the <a

+        href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6958">ticket</a>)

+      </li>

+      <li>

+        Auditing TorBirdy for leaks and for use with other add-ons (as an

+        example see its <a

+        href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6319">ticket</a>)

+      </li>

+    </ul>

+    

+    <p>

+    A student undertaking this project should have some C++ and JavaScript

+    development experience. Previous experience with Firefox/Thunderbird

+    extension development is a plus, but not required.

+    </p>

+    </li>

+    

+    <!--

     <a id="auditTBB"></a>

     <li>

     <b>Audit Tor Browser Bundles for data leaks</b>

@@ -768,7 +834,9 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     <p>Since the core of this project is researching and auditing TBB this is

     not likely to be a good GSoC project.</p>

     </li>

+    -->

+    <!--

     <a id="firewallProbeTool"></a>

     <li>

     <b>Develop a fully automatic firewall-probing system</b>

@@ -798,6 +866,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

         DTLS, etc.).</li>

     </ul>

     </li>

+    -->

     <!--

     <a id="orbot-torbutton"></a>

@@ -822,6 +891,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     </li>

     -->

+    <!--

     <a id="obfsproxy-new-transports"></a>

     <li>

     <b>New and innovative pluggable transports</b>

@@ -848,7 +918,9 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     implementation has a pluggable transport interface on top of it (as

     specified <a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/proposals/180-pluggable-transport.txt">here</a>).</p>

     </li>

+    -->

+    <!--

     <a id="obfsproxy-scanning-measures"></a>

     <li>

     <b>Defensive bridge active scanning measures</b>

@@ -869,6 +941,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     and <a

     href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/proposals/190-shared-secret-bridge-authorization.txt">190</a>.</p>

     </li>

+    -->

     <a id="stemUsability"></a>

     <li>

@@ -1014,6 +1087,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     </li>

     -->

+    <!--

     <a id="user-space-transport"></a>

     <li>

     <b>Integrating Tor with user-space transport protocol libraries</b>

@@ -1042,7 +1116,9 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     <p>Excellent C programming skills are needed, and knowledge of Tor

     internals are highly desirable.</p>

     </li>

+    -->

+    <!--

     <a id="resistCensorship"></a>

     <li>

     <b>Improving Tor's ability to resist censorship</b>

@@ -1083,7 +1159,9 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     then trading off censorship resistance with usability and

     robustness.</p>

     </li>

+    -->

+    <!--

     <a id="tailsHiddenServicePetnames"></a>

     <li>

     <b>Petname system for Tor hidden services</b>

@@ -1126,7 +1204,9 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     Development methods. Either in Ruby using Cucumber and RSpec, or in

     Python using similar tools.</p>

     </li>

+    -->

+    <!--

     <a id="tailsServer"></a>

     <li>

     <b>Tails server: Self-hosted services behind Tails-powered Tor hidden services</b>

@@ -1213,7 +1293,9 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     would be most welcome.</p>

     <p>For more information see https://tails.boum.org/todo/server_edition/</p>

     </li>

+    -->

+    <!--

     <a id="geoIPUpgrade"></a>

     <li>

     <b>Improve our GeoIP file format</b>

@@ -1238,6 +1320,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     designing the IPv6 format, this is not likely to be a good GSoC

     project.</p>

     </li>

+    -->

     <!--

     <a id="armClientMode"></a>

@@ -1300,6 +1383,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     </li>

     -->

+    <!--

     <a id="vidalia-hidden-service-panel"></a>

     <li>

     <b>Torrc plugin and improved hidden service configuration panel</b>

@@ -1326,6 +1410,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     knowledge is a plus, but it shouldn't be a problem if the person

     complies with the previous requirements.</p>

     </li>

+    -->

     <a id="metricsSearch"></a>

     <li>

@@ -1413,61 +1498,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     </li>

     -->

-    <a id="improveTorbirdy"></a>

-    <li>

-    <b>Improving TorBirdy</b>

-    <br>

-    Priority: <i>High</i>

-    <br>

-    Effort Level: <i>High</i>

-    <br>

-    Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>

-    <br>

-    Likely Mentors: <i>Sukhbir, Jacob</i>

-    <p>

-    TorBirdy is Torbutton for Thunderbird, Icedove and related Mozilla mail

-    clients.

-    </p>

-    <p>

-    TorBirdy is under active development and is available from <a

-    href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy">our wiki</a>

-    and <a

-    href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/">mozilla's

-    addons site</a>.

-    </p>

-    

-    <p>

-    The goal of this project is to improve TorBirdy by:

-    </p>

-    

-    <ul>

-      <li>

-        Writing a Thunderbird patch to plug known leaks. We have already <a

-        href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776397">submitted a

-        patch to Thunderbird</a> but we anticipate there will be much more work

-        required before it is accepted, possibly involving rewriting the entire

-        patch; this appears trivial, but it is not, as we are proposing a

-        completely new privacy-safe message-ID header generation algorithm for

-        Thunderbird.

-      </li>

-      <li>

-        Implementing a JavaScript HTTP proxy (see the <a

-        href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6958">ticket</a>)

-      </li>

-      <li>

-        Auditing TorBirdy for leaks and for use with other add-ons (as an

-        example see its <a

-        href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6319">ticket</a>)

-      </li>

-    </ul>

-    

-    <p>

-    A student undertaking this project should have some C++ and JavaScript

-    development experience. Previous experience with Firefox/Thunderbird

-    extension development is a plus, but not required.

-    </p>

-    </li>

-    

+    <!--

     <a id="usabilityTesting"></a>

     <li>

     <b>Usability testing of Tor</b>

@@ -1491,6 +1522,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     Google Summer of Code.

     </p>

     </li>

+    -->

     <!--

     <a id="torsocksForOSX"></a>

@@ -1525,6 +1557,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     </li>

     -->

+    <!--

     <a id="vidaliaStatusEventInterface"></a>

     <li>

     <b>Tor Controller Status Event Interface for Vidalia</b>

@@ -1565,6 +1598,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     be understandable by non-technical users. Bonus points for some graphic

     design/Photoshop fu, since we might want/need some shiny new icons too.</p>

     </li>

+    -->

     <!--

     <a id="orbot-optimisation"></a>

@@ -1680,6 +1714,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     </li>

     -->

+    <!--

     <a id="obfsproxy-fuzzer"></a>

     <li>

     <b>Fuzzer for the Tor protocol</b>

@@ -1710,6 +1745,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

       &quot;symbolic execution&quot; to get inspired.</li>

     </ul>

     </li>

+    -->

     <!--

     <a id="armGui"></a>

@@ -1744,6 +1780,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     </li>

     -->

+    <!--

     <a id="APAF"></a>

     <li>

     <b>APAF: Anonymous Python Application Framework</b>

@@ -1774,6 +1811,7 @@ meetings around the world.</li>

     href="https://pad.riseup.net/p/1zA8FI4nrYlq">https://pad.riseup.net/p/1zA8FI4nrYlq</a>

     </p>

     </li>

+    -->

     <li>

     <b>Bring up new ideas!</b>