Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-06-11 Thread Steven Murdoch
Hi Chang, On 29 May 2013, at 06:22, Chang Lan changl...@gmail.com wrote: Given that ScrambleSuite is being deployed, improving protocol obfuscation will be my main focus. HTTP impersonation is really useful, since there are numerous HTTP proxy outside the censored region, while the number of

Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-06-11 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 05:46:49PM +0100, Steven Murdoch wrote: On 11 Jun 2013, at 12:49, Steven Murdoch [1]steven.murd...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: There certainly are quite a few open questions, so it would be good to start planning early. Implementing HTTP is a deceptively difficult

Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-06-11 Thread Steven Murdoch
On 11 Jun 2013, at 12:49, Steven Murdoch steven.murd...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: There certainly are quite a few open questions, so it would be good to start planning early. Implementing HTTP is a deceptively difficult project. I've started a design document

Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-06-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
I've been thinking about writing a lessons-learned document about StegoTorus; I'll bump that up a little on the todo queue. For right now I want to mention that any greenfields design should take a hard look at MinimaLT http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/minimalt-20130522.pdf as its cryptographic layer. It

Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-05-31 Thread George Kadianakis
Chang Lan changl...@gmail.com writes: Hello everyone! Hi there, I am a Tor GSoC student who will be working on the pluggable transports this summer. My mentor is Steven and my co-mentor is George Kadianakis. It is great to be part of the Tor community! Steven already kicked off the