commit ea4a983ada5fee1ad9b36e8d65e0fe671307a692
Author: Damian Johnson <ata...@torproject.org>
Date: Sat Jan 6 17:53:01 2018 -0800
Drop 'Stem Descriptors' task
Some parts of this task are done, and others need to be updated. Still
giving
thought about a good project to propose this year.
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getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml | 38 --------------------------------------
1 file changed, 38 deletions(-)
diff --git a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
index 0680a0bd..7758e15d 100644
--- a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
+++ b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
@@ -539,11 +539,6 @@ meetings around the world.</li>
Tor.
</p>
- <p>
- <b>Project Ideas:</b><br />
- <i><a href="#stemDescriptors">Stem Descriptors</a></i>
- </p>
-
<a id="project-txtorcon"></a>
<h3><a href="https://txtorcon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/";>Txtorcon</a> (<a
href="https://github.com/meejah/txtorcon";>code</a>, <a
@@ -1027,39 +1022,6 @@ For more information <a
href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17
</p>
</li>
- <a id="stemDescriptors"></a>
- <li>
- <b>Stem Descriptors</b>
- <br>
- Language: <i>Python</i>
- <br>
- Likely Mentors: <i>Damian Johnson (atagar), Philipp Winter (phw)</i>
- <p>
- <a href="https://stem.torproject.org/";>Stem</a> is a Python library for
working with tor. With it you can build applications on tor as well as learn
information about the relay network. This project concerns this second
capability.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- Information about relays are published hourly in documents called <a
href="https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/mirror_mirror_on_the_wall.html";>descriptors</a>.
With Stem you can download, parse, and validate all kinds of descriptor
documents.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- Ideas welcome! You're encouraged to brainstorm improvements we can make to
this space but here's a few to get you started...
- </p>
-
- <ul>
- <li><p><b><a
href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11045";>Validate
signatures in the consensus</a></b>. Stem has the ability to validate
cryptographic signatures in several descriptor types but not the
consensus.</p></li>
- <li><p><b><a
href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21086";>Migrate from
pycrypto to a supported library</a></b>. Stem presently uses pycrypto for
signature validation but it's no longer maintained. We should evaluate options
and move to whatever whavever the cool kids are using nowadays.</p></li>
- <li><p><b><a
href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18856";>Retrieve
descriptors over tor's ORPort</a></b>. Tor relays commonly provide two ports,
an <b>ORPort</b> which is used by clients and a <b>DirPort</b> which is
obsolete nowadays but in the past was used by tor to download descriptors. Stem
still uses tor's DirPort to retrieve descriptors, but it would be neat if we
could download from the ORPort instead.</p>
- <p>This requires implementing part of tor's communication protocol.
Depending how complicated this is it might be neat to expand this task to allow
the full construction of circuits, allowing client usage of tor without the C
executable. Keep in mind though that this later bit hasn't been investigated
and might be a pipe dream. ;P</p></li>
- <li><p><b>Improve performance of reading descriptors</b>. Stem <a
href="https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/mirror_mirror_on_the_wall.html#are-there-any-other-parsing-libraries";>isn't
the only descriptor parsing library</a> and sadly is the slowest. Tricks like
lazy loading have substantially improved our performance but no doubt a
dedicated effort to profile Stem would find more low hanging fruit.</p></li>
- </ul>
-
-
- <p>
- <b>As part of applying for this project please get your hands wet with the
codebase by contributing some patches for <a
href="https://stem.torproject.org/faq.html#how-do-i-get-started";>Stem</a>!</b>
- </p>
- </li>
-
<a id="ahmiaSearch"></a>
<li>
<b>Ahmia - Onion Service Search</b>
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