<div>Dear all,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm currently an
undergraduate student double BSc Applied
Mathematics/Computer Science. This year I'll be doing a small (~500 hour) research
project as part of my Honor track. I'm looking for a suitable research question I can try to answer, preferrably by using mathematical modeling. To give you an idea what kind of research I
was planning to do, I briefly described my current idea below.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I
was considering researching path selection, specifically the
probability of selecting only faulty/malicious nodes and how this might
be improved by including an extra reputation metric. This hypothetical
reputation metric would be a "social" like reputation, based on for
example real-world connections between people. In the most extreme case,
one could choose a path of which all nodes are ran by real-world
trusted people.<br></div><div><br></div><div>As there might be a more usefull research question out there, I was wondering whether
there are any questions that the Tor Project has that might be answered
by using mathematical modelling. I could then consider to try and
answer this question in my research project.<br></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div>Thanks in advance.</div></div><div><br></div>