[tor-dev] [tor-assistants] Researching Tor for Master's Thesis

Ian Goldberg iang at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Dec 2 21:14:20 UTC 2014


On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:57:09PM +0000, George Kadianakis wrote:
> This is worth researching and even implementing a PoC of.  There are
> various places in the Tor protocols that PIR could be applied.
> 
> However I don't know how feasible it is for an MSc thesis.  I remember
> that Ian Goldberg had a nice survey paper of PIR schemes. There are
> even some implementations of some PIR schemes floating the internet,
> but they are probably research quality implementations.

Actually, I hope our Percy++ PIR library is better quality than that:

http://percy.sourceforge.net/

   - Ian


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