Author: atagar Date: 2014-03-01 20:51:59 +0000 (Sat, 01 Mar 2014) New Revision: 26631

Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml Log: Adding Panopticlick project idea

Idea from GeKo for this year's GSoC.

Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2014-03-01 13:36:40 UTC (rev 26630) +++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2014-03-01 20:51:59 UTC (rev 26631) @@ -456,6 +456,11 @@ privacy and security issues in mainline version. </p>

+ <p> + <b>Project Ideas:</b><br /> + <i><a href="#panopticlick">Panopticlick</a></i><br /> + </p> + <a id="project-torbutton"></a> <h3><a href="<page torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a> (<a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbutton.git">code</a>, <a @@ -645,7 +650,7 @@ <p> <b>Project Ideas:</b><br /> <i><a href="#txtorcon-stemIntegration">Txtorcon/Stem Integration</a></i><br /> - <i><a href="#relayWebPanel">Relay Web Status Panel </a></i><br /> + <i><a href="#relayWebPanel">Relay Web Status Panel</a></i><br /> </p>

<a id="project-txtorcon"></a> @@ -1688,6 +1693,32 @@ </p> </li>

+ <a id="panopticlick"></a> + <li> + <b>Panopticlick</b> + <br> + Effort Level: <i>Medium</i> + <br> + Skill Level: <i>Medium</i> + <br> + Likely Mentors: <i>Georg (GeKo)</i> + <p> +Tor Browser users are often complaining about their browser fingerprint +being not as good as it should according to the <a +href="https://panopticlick.eff.org%22%3EPanopticlick of the EFF</a>. To fix +that the student should develop an own <a +href="https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf%22%3EPanopticlick</a> +instance which performs, in a first step, basic tests estimating the +uniformity among Tor Browser Bundle users. The user should get a +feedback on how she performed and the test results should be available +in a machine readable format (e.g. JSON). In a second step one could +think about adding more sophisticated tests or <a +href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6119#comment:1%22%3Esupporti... +other browser vendors</a> that might want to test the uniformity amongst +their userbase as well." + </p> + </li> + <!-- <a id=""></a> <li>