tor-webwml.git

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@

     Systems; such as OS X 10.2, OS X 10.3, Windows XP, Windows 7, IRIX,

     Redhat, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, etc. A number of service providers

     have an abundance of bandwidth capacity, but need hardware in order

-    donate it to us.</p>

+    to donate it to us.</p>

     <p>By donating hardware, you're joining our many <a href="<page

     about/sponsors>">sponsors</a> in providing online privacy and anonymity. If

@@ -49,16 +49,19 @@

     <a id="Advocacy"></a>

     <h2><a class="anchor" href="#Advocacy">Advocacy</a></h2>

     <ol>

-    <li>Create a <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/CommunityLogos">community logo</a> under a Creative Commons license that all can use and modify</li>

-    <li>Create a presentation that can be used for various user group meetings around the world</li>

+    <li>Create a <a

+href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/CommunityLogos">community

+logo</a> under a Creative Commons license that all can use and modify.</li>

+    <li>Create a presentation that can be used for various user group

+meetings around the world.</li>

     <li>Create a video about the positive uses of Tor, what Tor is,

     or how to use it.  Some have already started on <a

     href="http://media.torproject.org/video/">Tor's Media server</a>,

     <a

     href="http://www.howcast.com/videos/90601-How-To-Circumvent-an-Internet-Proxy">Howcast</a>,

-    and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/thetorproject">Youtube</a>.</li> 

+    and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/thetorproject">YouTube</a>.</li> 

     <li>Create a poster, or a set of posters, around a theme,

-    such as "Tor for Freedom!"</li>

+    such as "Tor for Freedom!".</li>

     </ol>

     <a id="Coding"></a>

@@ -101,7 +104,7 @@

     using a Tor Browser Bundle on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux.  Developing

     ways to stop, counter, or remove these traces is a final step.</p>

     <p>Students should be familiar with operating system analysis,

-    application development on one or preferably Windows, Linux,

+    application development on one or preferably all of Windows, Linux,

     and Mac OS X, and be comfortable with C/C++ and shell scripting.</p>

     <p>If you would like to help extend or do security auditing for

     TBB, please contact Erinn.</p>

@@ -151,7 +154,7 @@

     But Tor still needs better mechanisms for some parts of its

     anti-censorship design.</p>

     <p>One huge category of work is adding features to our <a

-    href="http://gitweb.torproject.org//bridgedb.git?a=tree">bridgedb</a>

+    href="http://gitweb.torproject.org/bridgedb.git?a=tree">BridgeDB</a>

     service (Python). Tor aims to give out <a href="<page docs/bridges>">bridge

     relay addresses</a> to users that can't reach the Tor network

     directly, but there's an arms race between algorithms for distributing

@@ -189,14 +192,15 @@

     to be informed. For example, if the user is trying to set up his Tor as a

     relay and Tor decides that its ports are not reachable from outside

     the user's network, we should alert the user. Currently, all the user

-    gets is a couple log messages in Vidalia's 'message log' window, which they

+    gets is a couple of log messages in Vidalia's 'message log' window, which they

     likely never see since they don't receive a notification that something

     has gone wrong. Even if the user does actually look at the message log,

     most of the messages make little sense to the novice user.</p>

-    <p>Tor has the ability to inform Vidalia of many such status changes, and

-    we recently implemented support for a couple of these events. Still,

-    there are many more status events the user should be informed of and we

-    need a better UI for actually displaying them to the user.</p>

+    <p>Tor has the ability to inform Vidalia of many such status

+    changes, and we recently implemented support for a couple of these

+    events. Still, there are many more status events which the user should

+    be informed of, and we need a better UI for actually displaying them

+    to the user.</p>

     <p>The goal of this project then is to design and implement a UI for

     displaying Tor status events to the user. For example, we might put a

     little badge on Vidalia's tray icon that alerts the user to new status

@@ -206,7 +210,7 @@

     the user. Of course, this is just an example and one is free to

     suggest another approach.</p>

     <p>A person undertaking this project should have good UI design and layout

-    and some C++ development experience. Previous experience with Qt and

+    skills and some C++ development experience. Previous experience with Qt and

     Qt's Designer will be very helpful, but are not required. Some

     English writing ability will also be useful, since this project will

     likely involve writing small amounts of help documentation that should

@@ -224,11 +228,12 @@

     Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>

     <br>

     Likely Mentors: <i>Nick, Erinn</i>

-    <p>Tor needs to be far more tested. This is a multi-part effort. To start

-    with, our unit test coverage should rise substantially, especially in

-    the areas outside the utility functions. This will require significant

-    refactoring of some parts of Tor, in order to dissociate as much logic

-    as possible from globals.</p>

+    <p>Tor needs to be tested far more thoroughly. This is a

+    multi-part effort. To start with, our unit test coverage should

+    rise substantially, especially in the areas outside the utility

+    functions. This will require significant refactoring of some parts

+    of Tor, in order to dissociate as much logic as possible from

+    globals.</p>

     <p>Additionally, we need to automate our performance testing. We've got

     buildbot to automate our regular integration and compile testing already

     (though we need somebody to set it up on Windows),

@@ -253,8 +258,8 @@

     environments.  The first step is to get a handle on the current state of

     the project in which you are interested in helping; <a

     href="http://github.com/brl/JTor">Tor for Java</a>,

-    <a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/android/trunk/">Android/Orbot</a>

-    , or <a href="<page docs/N900>">Tor for Maemo</a>. Check out the

+    <a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/android/trunk/">Android/Orbot</a>,

+     or <a href="<page docs/N900>">Tor for Maemo</a>. Check out the

     repository and familiarize yourself

     with the source code.  Further, support for requesting or even providing

     Tor hidden services would be neat, but not required.</p>

@@ -282,16 +287,16 @@

     connected, quality of connection and so on. The "Tether Wifi"

     Android application is a good model to follow in how it shows

     a realtime count of bytes transferred as well as notifications

-    when wifi client connect. In addition, better display/handling

+    when wifi clients connect. In addition, better display/handling

     of Tor system/error messages would also be very helpful. Finally,

     the addition of a wizard or tutorial walkthrough for novice

-    users to explain to them exactly what or what is not anonymized

+    users to explain to them exactly what is and what is not anonymized

     or protected would greatly improve the likelihood they will use

     Orbot correctly.</p>

     <p><b>Android Java OS/Core app work:</b> Better system-wide

-    indicator either via the notification bar, "Toast" pop-up dialogs

-    or some other indicator that an application's traffic is indeed

+    indication, either via the notification bar, "Toast" pop-up dialogs

+    or some other indicator, that an application's traffic is indeed

     moving through Orbot/Tor. For instance, right now you need to

     first go to a torcheck web service to ensure your browser is

     routing via Tor. Orbot should be able to notify you that circuits

@@ -300,8 +305,8 @@

     <p><b>Android Java Library/Community Outreach work:</b> We need

     to package a simple library for use with third-party application

-    to easily enable them to support "Torification" on non-root

-    devices (aka w/o transparent proxying). This library should

+    to easily enable them to support "Torification" on non-rooted

+    devices (i.e. w/o transparent proxying). This library should

     include a wrapper for the Apache HTTPClient library, a utility

     class for detecting the state of Orbot connectivity, and other

     relevant/useful things an Android app might need to anonymize

@@ -316,7 +321,7 @@

     Android hardware, or on mobile networks. It should be noted,

     that even without optimization, Tor is handling the mobile

     network environment very well, automatically detecting change

-    in IP addresses, reconnecting circuits, etc across switching

+    in IP addresses, reconnecting circuits, etc. across switching

     from 2G to 3G to Wifi, and so forth.</p>

     </li>

@@ -583,7 +588,7 @@

     <li>Tor 0.1.1.x and later include support for hardware crypto

     accelerators via OpenSSL. It has been lightly tested and is

     possibly very buggy.  We're looking for more rigorous testing,

-    performance analysis, and optimally, code fixes to openssl and

+    performance analysis, and optimally, code fixes to OpenSSL and

     Tor if needed.</li>

     <li>Perform a security analysis of Tor with <a

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Tor's resource utilization and state.</p>

 <div class="name"><a href="<wiki>projects/TorBulkExitlist">TorBEL</a></div>

 <p>The Tor Bulk Exitlist is a service others can

 query to determine if an IP is a tor exit node or not,

-and if so, on which tcp ports it allows traffic.</p>

+and if so, on which TCP ports it allows traffic.</p>

 </td>

 <td>

 <div class="name"><a href="<wiki>projects/TorCheck">Tor Check</a></div>