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     <p>

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

-    <i><a href="#ooniprobeSimulator">Create an Internet Censorship Virtual Machine Based Simulator</a></i>

+    <i><a href="#ooniprobeSimulator">Create an Internet Censorship Virtual Machine Based Simulator</a></i><br />

+    <i><a href="#censorshipAnalyzer">Develop a Censorship Analyzer</a></i>

     </p>

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     </p>

     </li>

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

+    <li>

+    <b>Develop a Censorship Analyzer</b>

+    <br>

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

+    <br>

+    Skill Level: <i>Medium to High (depends on the implemented tests)</i>

+    <br>

+    Likely Mentors: <i>Philipp (phw)</i>

+    <p>

+Tor is documented to be blocked in <a

+href="https://censorshipwiki.torproject.org">several countries</a>. Analyzing

+these censorship incidents can be a tedious task; especially without access to

+machines inside the censoring networks. To make analysis easier, it would be

+great to have a lightweight analysis tool which can be run by censored users.

+This tool would conduct a number of networking tests and figure out if and how

+Tor could be blocked. The tool's final report should then somehow make it back

+to the Tor project.

+    </p>

+

+    <p>

+The theory behind this tool is already <a

+href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/foci13/foci13-winter.pdf">documented

+in a research paper</a>. What we now need is code! Implementing it would first

+mean getting familiar with <a href="https://ooni.torproject.org">OONI</a> and

+<a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/">Twisted</a>. After that, the tool

+should be implemented as a number of OONI-specific networking tests.

+    </p>

+    </li>

+

     <li>

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

     <br>