Hi Krishna, absolutely! We love having new volunteers be it through GSoC or not. Hell, most of us got our start outside the program. ;)
I'll leave the crypto parallelism questions to Nick, George, David, and others far more knowledgeable of the core tor codebase than me. On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Krishna Shukla <karatekris...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > I'm Krishna Shukla, I'm studying a bachelors of computer science at the > University of Queensland. > I guess the relevant subjects I've studied so far covers C and Unix > programming, Computer Networks, Algorithms and Data Structures, and > Programming in the large. (got a high distinction in all the above) > > My most important question is if I could work on a project but not actually > be apart of GSoC? - I am unfortunately ineligible as my brother works as a > Security Engineer at Google Sydney. And if the above is okay would it also > be okay to not have to strictly abide by their timeline as I don't actually > have holidays during this time in Australia but I'd like to contribute in my > free time nonetheless! > > As for projects themselves I'm really interested in the relay crypto > parallelism and the hidden service crypto parallelism. And I have a couple > of questions regarding them. > > For the relay crypto parallelism I wanted to know what is there left to be > done? When I looked at the tickey #1749 someone called towelenee made a few > patches that already made it multi threaded, were these changes just not > accepted? Also wanted to know if specific knowledge about circuit > cryptography was required? As I know of it, but I certainly cannot make my > own fully homomorphic cryptosystem, is it more in the steps of the system > has already been made, it just needs to be parallelised correctly? > > It also states the code is written to expect immediate responses, I'm not > sure what you mean by that, after all there is always a slight delay, and if > it becomes multi threaded we can never know what is running what when, so is > it more someone is waiting at the other end of a socket and needs it ASAP, > or is it internally things want the answer quickly (in which case I don't > know how to solve it other than uses mutexes which is probably not so okay)? > > I am interested in the hidden service crypto parallelism in its own right, > but I was also thinking weather it would be a feasible idea to combine the > two projects and create a multi-threaded decryption library that could be > linked to both the tor relay and the hidden services (could release it as a > cryptosystem library, all the fully homorphic cryptosystem libraries I found > used GPL licenses and thus not compatible with tors), or are their > requirements too far apart? > > Also I was wondering how the Ahmia automated blacklisting was planned to > work? As in how would a list of child abuse sites be fetched? Honestly I > don't actually know python, I've worked with it and Django before in a > hackathon once, but I cannot claim any real knowledge in it, but at the same > time I am passionate about the topic of child abuse, and I think if I can > help reduce its demand in anyway by making it harder to find, I'd say it's > some good added to the world. > > Apologies about the long mail guys, > Krishna Shukla > > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev > _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
