Re: [tor-dev] Tor Project Idea | GSOC 2015 | Panopticlick | fake fingerprint

2015-02-12 Thread Rohit Dua
Thank you all for replying. I can summarize some points after reading the links provided. The random fingerprint headless browser should not be connected with Tor network as this can lead to more frequent blocking of exit nodes(due to more scraping bots using exit nodes) A random fingerprint sho

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Project Idea | GSOC 2015 | Panopticlick | fake fingerprint

2015-02-12 Thread Gunes Acar
Hi Rohit, Please check the ticket #11949 and the comment by Georg: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11949#comment:1 TL;DR research on the advantages of randomization over the current approach (making everyone look like same) may be useful before starting with the actual implementat

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Project Idea | GSOC 2015 | Panopticlick | fake fingerprint

2015-02-12 Thread l.m
Hi, For anonymous scraping it could certainly be useful. This poses a problem as far as making Tor Project look as if it supports autonomous anonymous scraping of web data. Ultimately this impression could lead to even more blocking of Tor exits. Another problem with the idea of a randomized fing

[tor-dev] Multithreaded Crypto

2015-02-12 Thread Nik
Hello, I'd like to try to help out and do some work on Tor's multithreaded crypto, specifically for incoming/outgoing cells. I've read through https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/projects/Tor/MultithreadedCrypto as well as #1749 and #7572. I have a few questions for tor devs and peo

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Project Idea | GSOC 2015 | Panopticlick | fake fingerprint

2015-02-12 Thread Rohit Dua
Do you think this project idea(or related) can be turned into gsoc-2015 project? On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Andrew F wrote: > I think I like this idea.. Well done. > > > On Wednesday, February 11, 2015, Rohit Dua <8ohit@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello >> >> I'm Rohit from India, aspirin