Author: atagar Date: 2013-09-04 15:27:07 +0000 (Wed, 04 Sep 2013) New Revision: 26339 Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml Log: Adding "Develop a Censorship Analyzer" project Addition from Philipp Winter for a project he would like to mentor. Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2013-09-04 02:19:31 UTC (rev 26338) +++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2013-09-04 15:27:07 UTC (rev 26339) @@ -771,7 +771,8 @@ <p> <b>Project Ideas:</b><br /> - <i><a href="#ooniprobeSimulator">Create an Internet Censorship Virtual Machine Based Simulator</a></i> + <i><a href="#ooniprobeSimulator">Create an Internet Censorship Virtual Machine Based Simulator</a></i><br /> + <i><a href="#censorshipAnalyzer">Develop a Censorship Analyzer</a></i> </p> <a id="project-torflow"></a> @@ -1408,7 +1409,37 @@ </p> </li> + <a id="censorshipAnalyzer"></a> <li> + <b>Develop a Censorship Analyzer</b> + <br> + Effort Level: <i>Medium</i> + <br> + Skill Level: <i>Medium to High (depends on the implemented tests)</i> + <br> + Likely Mentors: <i>Philipp (phw)</i> + <p> +Tor is documented to be blocked in <a +href="https://censorshipwiki.torproject.org">several countries</a>. Analyzing +these censorship incidents can be a tedious task; especially without access to +machines inside the censoring networks. To make analysis easier, it would be +great to have a lightweight analysis tool which can be run by censored users. +This tool would conduct a number of networking tests and figure out if and how +Tor could be blocked. The tool's final report should then somehow make it back +to the Tor project. + </p> + + <p> +The theory behind this tool is already <a +href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/foci13/foci13-winter.pdf">documented +in a research paper</a>. What we now need is code! Implementing it would first +mean getting familiar with <a href="https://ooni.torproject.org">OONI</a> and +<a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/">Twisted</a>. After that, the tool +should be implemented as a number of OONI-specific networking tests. + </p> + </li> + + <li> <b>Bring up new ideas!</b> <br> Don't like any of these? Look at the <a