Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-06-11 Thread Steven Murdoch
Hi Chang, On 29 May 2013, at 06:22, Chang Lan changl...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [tor-dev] grabbing Tor circuit (node) data- Tor stem, torrc and Tor control port

2013-06-11 Thread SARAH CORTES
Damian, thanks. Your summary pretty well sums up where i am trying to start. I will try this out and go from there. On Jun 10, 2013, at 11:08 PM, Damian Johnson ata...@torproject.org wrote: Hi Sarah. I'm not really sure what you're trying to ask in most of these questions. Assuming that your

Re: [tor-dev] Metrics Plans

2013-06-11 Thread Damian Johnson
I can try experimenting with this later on (when we have the full / needed importer working, e.g.), but it might be difficult to scale indeed (not sure, of course). Do you have any specific use cases in mind? (actually curious, could be interesting to hear.) The advantages of being able to

Re: [tor-dev] Client simulation

2013-06-11 Thread Norman Danner
On 6/10/13 4:40 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: On 6/6/13 7:32 PM, Norman Danner wrote: I have two questions regarding a possible research project. First, the research question: can one use machine-learning techniques to construct a model of Tor client behavior? Or in a more general form:

Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-06-11 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 05:46:49PM +0100, Steven Murdoch wrote: On 11 Jun 2013, at 12:49, Steven Murdoch [1]steven.murd...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: There certainly are quite a few open questions, so it would be good to start planning early. Implementing HTTP is a deceptively difficult

Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-06-11 Thread Steven Murdoch
On 11 Jun 2013, at 12:49, Steven Murdoch steven.murd...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: There certainly are quite a few open questions, so it would be good to start planning early. Implementing HTTP is a deceptively difficult project. I've started a design document

Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-06-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
I've been thinking about writing a lessons-learned document about StegoTorus; I'll bump that up a little on the todo queue. For right now I want to mention that any greenfields design should take a hard look at MinimaLT http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/minimalt-20130522.pdf as its cryptographic layer. It