Chang Lan <changl...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello everyone! >
Hi there, > I am a Tor GSoC student who will be working on the pluggable transports this > summer. My mentor is Steven and my co-mentor is George Kadianakis. It is > great to be part of the Tor community! > > Steven already kicked off the discussion about how to build better > transports. The original project proposal[1] discussed the possibility of > sending data over UDP with extra efforts to guarantee reliable in-order > delivery. However, as George mentioned recently[3], ScrambleSuite[2] may > already solve the issue of scanning resistance. > > Given that ScrambleSuite is being deployed, improving protocol obfuscation > will be my main focus. HTTP impersonation is really useful, since there are > numerous HTTP proxy outside the censored region, while the number of bridges > is quite limited. What I'm gonna be doing during the summer is implementing a > good enough HTTP impersonation based on pluggable transports specification. > There are still many open questions indeed. Discussions are more than welcome! > Which approach are you thinking of taking for writing your HTTP transport? Which HTTP covert channel are you planning on using? Have you seen https//trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8676 for a different approach of writing an HTTP transport? In the google-melange page I see that your timetable doesn't include any specification. Can we hope to have a specification document before you start implementing the pluggable transport? Thanks! _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
