Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-06-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
I've been thinking about writing a lessons-learned document about StegoTorus; I'll bump that up a little on the todo queue. For right now I want to mention that any greenfields design should take a hard look at MinimaLT as its cryptographic layer. It

Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-06-11 Thread Steven Murdoch
On 11 Jun 2013, at 12:49, Steven Murdoch wrote: > There certainly are quite a few open questions, so it would be good to start > planning early. Implementing HTTP is a deceptively difficult project. I've started a design document https://github.com/sjmurdoch/http-transport/blob/master/design.m

Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-06-11 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 05:46:49PM +0100, Steven Murdoch wrote: > On 11 Jun 2013, at 12:49, Steven Murdoch <[1]steven.murd...@cl.cam.ac.uk> > wrote: > > There certainly are quite a few open questions, so it would be good to > start planning early. Implementing HTTP is a deceptively difficu

Re: [tor-dev] Client simulation

2013-06-11 Thread Norman Danner
On 6/10/13 4:40 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: On 6/6/13 7:32 PM, Norman Danner wrote: I have two questions regarding a possible research project. First, the research question: can one use machine-learning techniques to construct a model of Tor client behavior? Or in a more general form: can

Re: [tor-dev] Metrics Plans

2013-06-11 Thread Damian Johnson
> I can try experimenting with this later on (when we have the full / needed > importer working, e.g.), but it might be difficult to scale indeed (not > sure, of course). Do you have any specific use cases in mind? (actually > curious, could be interesting to hear.) The advantages of being able to

Re: [tor-dev] grabbing Tor circuit (node) data- Tor stem, torrc and Tor control port

2013-06-11 Thread SARAH CORTES
Damian, thanks. Your summary pretty well sums up where i am trying to start. I will try this out and go from there. On Jun 10, 2013, at 11:08 PM, Damian Johnson wrote: > Hi Sarah. I'm not really sure what you're trying to ask in most of > these questions. Assuming that your goal is simply 'I w

Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-06-11 Thread Steven Murdoch
Hi Chang, On 29 May 2013, at 06:22, Chang Lan wrote: > Given that ScrambleSuite is being deployed, improving protocol obfuscation > will be my main focus. HTTP impersonation is really useful, since there are > numerous HTTP proxy outside the censored region, while the number of bridges > is qu