Hi Everyone, I'm a student completing my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Stanford. This summer I'm going to be working with Tor for Google Summer of Code 2014. I'll be packaging a tool to allow non-technical users to monitor censorship of Tor occurring in their country/network My project based on Phillip Winter's paper "Towards a Censorship Analyser for Tor" <http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/pdf/foci2013.pdf> [1], and design requirements described in [2]. My main goals being to: - Implement a number of tests using OONI [3] Including reachability to directory authorities, the torproject.org, bridges.torproject.org and relays - Bundle tests into small binary that is easy to distribute and run - With user's consent, transmit (anonymized) data back to Tor Project - Leave no trace of use on user machine after tool removal. Obfuscate network traffic to attempt to hide analysis. - Produce user-friendly output so non-technical users gain better understanding of why Tor connections failing and perhaps possible remedies I'll be on IRC as jhaven, as QuicksilverJohny on GitHub<https://github.com/QuicksilverJohny>, and available via email at jacob@jhaven.me. Thanks to Philipp (phw) and Art (hellais) for helping me as mentors over the summer! [1] http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/pdf/foci2013.pdf [2] https://research.torproject.org/techreports/censorship-analysis-tool-2013-02... [3] https://ooni.torproject.org/ ————————— Jacob H. Haven – http://jhaven.me <http://jhaven.me/> jacob@jhaven.me jhaven@cs.stanford.edu +1-(949)-415-6469