Adding Panopticlick project idea
Damian Johnson

Damian Johnson commited on 2014-03-01 21:51:59
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Idea from GeKo for this year's GSoC.


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     privacy and security issues in mainline version.
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+    <p>
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+    <b>Project Ideas:</b><br />
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+    <i><a href="#panopticlick">Panopticlick</a></i><br />
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+    </p>
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     <a id="project-torbutton"></a>
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     <h3><a href="<page torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a> (<a
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     href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbutton.git">code</a>, <a
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+    <a id="panopticlick"></a>
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+    <li>
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+    <b>Panopticlick</b>
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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>Georg (GeKo)</i>
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+    <p>
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+Tor Browser users are often complaining about their browser fingerprint
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+being not as good as it should according to the <a
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+href="https://panopticlick.eff.org">Panopticlick of the EFF</a>. To fix
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+that the student should develop an own <a
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+href="https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf">Panopticlick</a>
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+instance which performs, in a first step, basic tests estimating the
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+uniformity among Tor Browser Bundle users. The user should get a
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+feedback on how she performed and the test results should be available
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+in a machine readable format (e.g. JSON). In a second step one could
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+think about adding more sophisticated tests or <a
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+href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6119#comment:1">supporting
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+other browser vendors</a> that might want to test the uniformity amongst
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+their userbase as well."
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+    </p>
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+    </li>
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