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     privacy and security issues in mainline version.

     </p>

+    <p>

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

+    <i><a href="#panopticlick">Panopticlick</a></i><br />

+    </p>

+

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

     <h3><a href="<page torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a> (<a

     href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbutton.git">code</a>, <a

@@ -1688,6 +1693,32 @@ the codebase that you want to work on.

     </p>

     </li>

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

+    <li>

+    <b>Panopticlick</b>

+    <br>

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

+    <br>

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

+    <br>

+    Likely Mentors: <i>Georg (GeKo)</i>

+    <p>

+Tor Browser users are often complaining about their browser fingerprint

+being not as good as it should according to the <a

+href="https://panopticlick.eff.org">Panopticlick of the EFF</a>. To fix

+that the student should develop an own <a

+href="https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf">Panopticlick</a>

+instance which performs, in a first step, basic tests estimating the

+uniformity among Tor Browser Bundle users. The user should get a

+feedback on how she performed and the test results should be available

+in a machine readable format (e.g. JSON). In a second step one could

+think about adding more sophisticated tests or <a

+href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6119#comment:1">supporting

+other browser vendors</a> that might want to test the uniformity amongst

+their userbase as well."

+    </p>

+    </li>

+

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