Author: atagar Date: 2012-11-10 19:34:04 +0000 (Sat, 10 Nov 2012) New Revision: 25868

Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml Log: Replacing TorBirdy project idea with an updated counterpart

Dropping the 'torbutton for thunderbird' project idea since it is now... well, implemented. Replacing the entry with a project that Sukhbir would like to mentor.

Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2012-11-09 20:49:30 UTC (rev 25867) +++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2012-11-10 19:34:04 UTC (rev 25868) @@ -482,11 +482,6 @@ as well</a>. </p>

- <p> - <b>Project Ideas:</b><br /> - <i><a href="#torbuttonForThunderbird">Torbutton equivalent for Thunderbird</a></i> - </p> - <a id="project-obfsproxy"></a> <h3><a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/obfsproxy.git/tree/HEAD:/doc">Obfsproxy</a> (<a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/obfsproxy.git">code</a>, <a @@ -1341,24 +1336,59 @@ </li> -->

- <a id="torbuttonForThunderbird"></a> + <a id="improveTorbirdy"></a> <li> - <b>Torbutton equivalent for Thunderbird</b> + <b>Improving TorBirdy</b> <br> - Priority: <i>Medium</i> + Priority: <i>High</i> <br> Effort Level: <i>High</i> <br> - Skill Level: <i>High</i> + Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i> <br> - Likely Mentors: <i>Jake</i> + Likely Mentors: <i>Sukhbir, Jacob</i> <p> - We're hearing from an increasing number of users that they want to use - Thunderbird with Tor. However, there are plenty of application-level - concerns, for example, by default Thunderbird will put your hostname in - the outgoing mail that it sends. At some point we should start a new - push to build a Thunderbird extension similar to Torbutton. + TorBirdy is Torbutton for Thunderbird, Icedove and related Mozilla mail + clients. </p> + <p> + TorBirdy is under active development and is available from <a + href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy%22%3Eour wiki</a> + and <a + href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/%22%3Emozilla%27... + addons site</a>. + </p> + + <p> + The goal of this project is to improve TorBirdy by: + </p> + + <ul> + <li> + Writing a Thunderbird patch to plug known leaks. We have already <a + href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776397%22%3Esubmitted a + patch to Thunderbird</a> but we anticipate there will be much more work + required before it is accepted, possibly involving rewriting the entire + patch; this appears trivial, but it is not, as we are proposing a + completely new privacy-safe message-ID header generation algorithm for + Thunderbird. + </li> + <li> + Implementing a JavaScript HTTP proxy (see the <a + href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6958%22%3Eticket</a>) + </li> + <li> + Auditing TorBirdy for leaks and for use with other add-ons (as an + example see its <a + href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6319%22%3Eticket</a>) + </li> + </ul> + + <p> + A student undertaking this project should have some C++ and JavaScript + development experience. Previous experience with Firefox/Thunderbird + extension development is a plus, but not required. + </p> </li>

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