On 2018-11-26 11:00 am, Kushal Das wrote:

Hi all,

I will be doing a 3 day (in total) training/workshop in College of Engineering, Pune, India in December on various topics. I am going to keep a day for Tor project itself. I have written down the following topic items for that day. Please suggest/update with your ideas.

There will be around 40+ students from 2nd year engineering to master of engineering and a few Ph.D candidates.

• Introduction to Tor project (1 day)
  • What is Tor Project?
  • How does Tor Project help in daily life?
  • Basic technical details behind the Tor network
  • Using Tor Browser
  • Onion services and deploying your own
  • Onionshare
  • Using Python to access Tor network

Hi,

Much depends on how many hours you will have here, the level of knowledge of the participants, and their interest (it's possible to have people who are not very knowledgeable but will end up being the most motivated to learn and use Tor). At the beginning of the class, ask for a show of hands re: how many people have used Tor browser, how many have heard of Tor, etc.

When people are new to security tools (if these people are), it's often useful just to get them up and running very solidly on one tool--in this case, the Tor browser. This takes time. So you could teach other stuff, provide them with handouts so they can explore the other things later, but prioritize getting them to use the browser, if possible, in the classroom. I'd practice first with the Internet bandwidth that will be available in the classroom, with all the students using it. I've often brought flash drives with Tor on them to speed up the installation process for students, so you aren't all waiting and waiting for Tor to download when there is not much bandwidth. (It's an engineering school--maybe they have fast Internet!)

I also really like the Tor video[0]---it's very accessible, and shows the overall goal of Tor with humor and charm, dissipating myths. If you use it, I would download it on to your laptop so you aren't depending on Internet access to play it. It can be a great place to start.

I'm interested to hear what other people on the list think as well.

Good luck,

Katie

[0] https://youtu.be/JWII85UlzKw (I think we have them on a Tor server, also)

Kushal