On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 5:32 PM, David Fifield <da...@bamsoftware.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 04:42:52PM -0800, Jodi Spacek wrote: > > I'm a master's student at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, > > Canada) where I'm primarily researching anonymous systems and > censorship. I > > would be delighted to contribute to pluggable transports. > > > > Of particular interest is image and audio data stenography - is anything > is in > > the works for this or is it outdated? My aim is to add this > functionality while > > fully testing and evaluating it as part of my thesis project. I refer to > the > > list of idea suggestions here: > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableT > ransports/ideas > > Circumvention research can probably learn a lot from steganography > research. Most of the "mainstream" research on circumvention (read: the > work I'm familiar with :D) is in CensorBib: > https://censorbib.nymity.ch/ > However I've been meaning to see what else we can learn by bringing > related research into its scope. There's a thread of research by > Sebastian Zander et al. on covert channels that hardly intersects with > circumvention research; it would be a good contribution if you could > determine to what extent the two worlds can be joined. For example > "Reliable Transmission Over Covert Channels in First Person Shooter > Multiplayer Games" predates Rook and Castle. They developed an > evaluation framework that to my knowledge hasn't been applied to > circumvention protocols. > http://caia.swin.edu.au/cv/szander/cc/index.html > http://caia.swin.edu.au/cv/szander/cc/cchef/ > "Provably Secure Steganography" by Hopper et al. could be relevant to > certain kinds of circumvention protocols. > https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~hoppernj/tc-stego.pdf > > The traffic-obf list is a group of circumvention researchers. They are > scheduling biweekly meetings on IRC. You could discuss some ideas there. > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/traffic-obf/VtsKZA2Akmk/-v3Ajct-AwAJ > This is a promising direction! I’ll look into covert channels with steganography in mind and its overlap with circumvention. Actually, I just finished reading your thesis - it’s an excellent resource for navigating related works and comprehending the interplay of circumvention and censorship. Thanks very much for the additional links (:
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