Author: rransom Date: 2011-02-23 13:15:41 +0000 (Wed, 23 Feb 2011) New Revision: 24260

Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml Log: Add two more project ideas to the volunteer page

Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2011-02-23 11:55:04 UTC (rev 24259) +++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2011-02-23 13:15:41 UTC (rev 24260) @@ -614,6 +614,36 @@ TBB, please contact Erinn.</p> </li>

+ <a id="firewallProbeTool"></a> + <li> + <b>Develop a fully automatic firewall-probing system</b> + <br> + Priority: <i>High</i> + <br> + Effort Level: <i>Medium to High</i> + <br> + Skill Level: <i>High</i> + <br> + Likely Mentors: <i>Robert Ransom, Nick, Jacob</i> + <p>We would like to have a fully automatic firewall-probing system for + blocking systems with no long-term state (i.e. firewalls that can + examine each connection, but do not change their behaviour for future + connections based on the traffic they have seen).</p> + <p>Ideally, volunteers would only need to set up one or more test servers, + and run the probe client program on a publicly accessible computer + behind the firewall.</p> + <p>The test tool should:</p> + <ul> + <li>generate packet captures on both ends (and send them out to the + extent possible),</li> + <li>cycle through all the SSL configurations we might want to test + through a censorship device, and</li> + <li>also test some other protocols to see whether they are allowed + through the firewall (IMAP and other mail protocols, BitTorrent, + DTLS, etc.).</li> + </ul> + </li> + <a id="tailsStartMenu"></a> <li> <b>Custom GDM3 startup menu, aka. tails-greeter</b> @@ -715,6 +745,27 @@ robustness.</p> </li>

+ <a id="geoIPUpgrade"></a> + <li> + <b>Improve our GeoIP file format</b> + <br> + Priority: <i>Medium</i> + <br> + Effort Level: <i>Medium</i> + <br> + Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i> + <br> + Likely Mentors: <i>Robert Ransom</i> + <p>Currently, Tor bridges and relays read an entire IP->country database + into memory from a text file during startup. We would like to + distribute this database and store it on disk in a much more compact + form if possible.</p> + <p>We have <a href='https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2506'>a + sketch of a design</a> for a moderately optimized format for IPv4 GeoIP + data; this project will involve both implementing the IPv4 format and + designing and implementing a format for IPv6 GeoIP data.</p> + </li> + <a id="armClientMode"></a> <li> <b>Client Mode Use Cases for Arm</b>