Hi Jodi,
There's some discussion of pluggable transport issues on https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/traffic-obf that may be of interest.
In terms of stenography, you end up with a couple choices. If you try to mimic existing protocols, you'll want to have read up on "The Parrot is Dead" by Houmansadr et al
In the last couple years, there were a couple prototype transports embedding data within video games, namely rook - https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2808141 and castle - https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05904
I'm not aware of anything active on the image steganography front, but I think the question remains how the activity remains difficult to differentiate from legitimate activity.
--Will
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 04:42:52PM -0800, Jodi Spacek wrote:
I'm a master's student at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) where I'm primarily researching anonymous systems and censorship. I would be delighted to contribute to pluggable transports.
Of particular interest is image and audio data stenography - is anything is in the works for this or is it outdated? My aim is to add this functionality while fully testing and evaluating it as part of my thesis project. I refer to the list of idea suggestions here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/ideas
Any guidance is greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!
Jodi
p.s.: Please advise if this is not the correct mailing list. and perhaps belongs in tor-assistants. If so, I will inquire there once my access is (hopefully!) granted.
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