[tor-commits] r26339: {website} Adding "Develop a Censorship Analyzer" project Addition from (website/trunk/getinvolved/en)

[Damian Johnson]

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
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--- 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