[tor-dev] GSoC Stegotorus status update

2014-08-02 Thread Noah Rahman
Following closely on the heels of my last email ( https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-July/007248.html), I updated the pluggable transports meeting on Friday to the following effect: - Have identified somewhat of a performance regression in the PDF module and am continuing to see i

[tor-dev] GSoc Stegotorus status update

2014-07-29 Thread Noah Rahman
Sorry for the delay, I have been travelling for the past week and a half and was at HOPE. I have finished debugging the swf steg, and am hunting down the last bugs in the pdf steg. SRI advised me that they are still working on their JavaScript transcoding library they wish to plug into the SWF and

[tor-dev] GSoC Stegotorus Security Enhancement

2014-07-04 Thread Noah Rahman
Greetings all, I've been refining the Elligator handshake to work on the circuit level for now as opposed to the connection level[1], merging in some SRI changes[2], especially those with respect to configuration files[3], and studying resources in order to prepare for a possible implementation of

[tor-dev] GSoC Stegotorus update 1

2014-06-07 Thread Noah Rahman
- Progress so far 1) Fixed segfaulting refactored SWF steganographic code. Code now fails on decompression but at least it's not segfaulting anymore. Suspected it was due to how trace payload server is integrated and rest of problems should be fixed by reimplementing pre decompression logic that w

[tor-dev] [GSoC Stegotorus] server segfault

2014-05-27 Thread vmon
Hey Noah, Thanks for the progress. T:7.9593: ckt 1 : send 8 7.9593 [debug] send_targeted: <1> efficiency: 151.00 7.9594 [debug] conn_send_eof: <1.10> flushing out 5496 bytes 7.9594 [debug] conn_do_flush: <1.10> flushing 5496 bytes to peer [enabled=6] 7.9595 [debug] send: <1.4> must send 7.95

[tor-dev] GSoC: Stegotorus Security enhancement

2014-05-05 Thread Noah Rahman
Hi all, I'm an entering PhD student in the department of physics at Tulane University. In the past I studied chemistry at Caltech, went for a master's at UCSB, and worked in the software industry at various positions, including a stint as a contractor in Intel's Verification and Test division. Th

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] [Stegotorus] Code submission and more curl

2012-09-10 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-09-10 16:58 , Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Ian Goldberg wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 02:33:30AM -0600, vmon wrote: >>> 3) Thank you for telling me about fts. I'm going to replace boost code with >>> fts soon. >> >> What is fts? This sounds potentially usef

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] [Stegotorus] Code submission and more curl

2012-09-10 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Ian Goldberg wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 02:33:30AM -0600, vmon wrote: >> 3) Thank you for telling me about fts. I'm going to replace boost code with >> fts soon. > > What is fts? This sounds potentially useful. It's a C API for directory tree walking. Sim

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] [Stegotorus] Code submission and more curl

2012-09-10 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:33 AM, vmon wrote: > Hello Zack, > > 1) I would like to ask your permission to submit the whole code for > code submission. First because my task in the summer wasn't only to > write the parts that I wrote but also to read the code and debug it as > well. Secondly because

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] [Stegotorus] Code submission and more curl

2012-09-10 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 02:33:30AM -0600, vmon wrote: > 3) Thank you for telling me about fts. I'm going to replace boost code with > fts soon. What is fts? This sounds potentially useful. Thanks, - Ian ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torpr

[tor-dev] [GSoC] [Stegotorus] Code submission and more curl

2012-09-10 Thread vmon
Hello Zack, 1) I would like to ask your permission to submit the whole code for code submission. First because my task in the summer wasn't only to write the parts that I wrote but also to read the code and debug it as well. Secondly because the git log shows who wrote what. Thirdly, It's easier.

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] [Stegotorus] Pencil down

2012-08-23 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:00 PM, vmon wrote: > Hey Zack, > > I just did my last pushes before putting my pencil down for the final > evaluations. They take care of the followings: > > - The remaining of all your comments on the > github. Except for "always use xalloc instead of new". I have used

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC] [Stegotorus] Recent activities

2012-08-23 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:25 PM, vmon wrote: > Hey Zack, > > I know you are super busy packing for your big move, but I thought as > tomorrow is > the hard deadline for GSoC, is not a bad ideas to give you some final update. I appreciate it. I am still in the middle of moving and don't have the

[tor-dev] [GSoC] [Stegotorus] Pencil down

2012-08-20 Thread vmon
Hey Zack, I just did my last pushes before putting my pencil down for the final evaluations. They take care of the followings: - The remaining of all your comments on the github. Except for "always use xalloc instead of new". I have used new extensively for instantiating objects. What's exactly

[tor-dev] [GSoC] [Stegotorus] Recent activities

2012-08-19 Thread vmon
Hey Zack, I know you are super busy packing for your big move, but I thought as tomorrow is the hard deadline for GSoC, is not a bad ideas to give you some final update. So most of last week I spent on the conflict that occurred between libcurl and libevent having their eyes on the same socket.

[tor-dev] [GSoC] [Stegotorus] update

2012-08-13 Thread vmonmoonshine
Hello Tor-devers, In last two weeks I was busy implementing the protocol by which the st server sends a url dictionary to the client, so they the client can communicate with server using this url code. It was bit tricky because chop needed to be involved to distinguished between the data being ser

[tor-dev] [GSoC] Stegotorus

2012-07-31 Thread vmon
Hi there, The payload strategies can be changed easily now by inheriting different class from PayloadServer. Current strategy is now in TracePayloadServer. For ApachePayloadServer strategy, server side is complete. for the client side, I need a handshake in steg level so the server sends the clie

[tor-dev] [GSoc] [Stegotorus] Progress report

2012-07-16 Thread vmon
Hello everybody, Quick update on the progress of apache payload class for stegotorus: - https://github.com/vmon/payload_scraper/ is working now, checking apache document root dir, find all files usable as payload, compute their capacity and store them in a database. For now, I'm using t

[tor-dev] [GSoC] Stegotorus status update

2012-07-02 Thread vmon
Hey Tor-devers, I hope you are enjoying the summer as it's officially started and nobody can deny that (unless you are on the wrong hemisphere). And sorry for the delay, I was Internet deprived for a while. So I'm here to tell you what I did in last two weeks. Following the advice of Zack, I rea