Re: [tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-20 Thread Marc Juarez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/2014 01:13 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote: You may also be interested in our new tech report: T. Wang, X. Cai, R. Nithyanand, R. Johnson and I. Goldberg Effective Attacks and Provable Defenses for Website Fingerprinting CACR 2014-05

Re: [tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-20 Thread Marc Juarez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike, thanks for your comments. My main concern for applying to GSoC is the time commitment. As I said in my first message, I would like to work part-time in the project. Anyway, I will submit a proposal and specify this there. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-19 Thread Marc Juarez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Thanks for the answers. Some inline comments below. On 03/12/2014 09:25 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: It sounds like the implementation might be the easy part, compared to the design part. And since GSoC is mostly about implementation,

Re: [tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-19 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:01:09PM +0100, Marc Juarez wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks for the answers. Some inline comments below. You may also be interested in our new tech report: T. Wang, X. Cai, R. Nithyanand, R. Johnson and I. Goldberg Effective Attacks and Provable Defenses for Website

Re: [tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-19 Thread Mike Perry
Marc Juarez: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Thanks for the answers. Some inline comments below. On 03/12/2014 09:25 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: It sounds like the implementation might be the easy part, compared to the design part. And since GSoC is mostly

Re: [tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-18 Thread Mike Perry
Marc Juarez: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lunar: Have you read Mike Perry's long blog post on the topic? https://blog.torproject.org/blog/critique-website-traffic-fingerprinting-attacks It outlines future research work in evaluating the efficiency of fingerprinting

Re: [tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-12 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 06:00:13PM +0100, Marc Juarez wrote: I'm a PhD student at COSIC (COmputer Security and Industrial Cryptography) in KU Leuven, Belgium. My research topic is related to network traffic analysis and I'm now focused in the more specific problem of website fingerprinting

Re: [tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-12 Thread Yawning Angel
On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:25:20 -0400 Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: It seems like some of the approaches would best be done inside Tor (as modifications to the Tor program), and some of them would best be done in a separate pluggable transport? Or should they all be done in a PT? Can the

Re: [tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-12 Thread George Kadianakis
Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu writes: On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 06:00:13PM +0100, Marc Juarez wrote: I'm a PhD student at COSIC (COmputer Security and Industrial Cryptography) in KU Leuven, Belgium. My research topic is related to network traffic analysis and I'm now focused in the more

Re: [tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-11 Thread Lunar
Marc Juarez: I think website fingerprinting is one of the most threatening attacks to Tor because it can be deployed with moderate resources and the information that can be extracted as a result is highly sensitive (e.g., browsing history). It basically defeats one of the main privacy

[tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-11 Thread Marc Juarez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lunar: Have you read Mike Perry's long blog post on the topic? https://blog.torproject.org/blog/critique-website-traffic-fingerprinting-attacks It outlines future research work in evaluating the efficiency of fingerprinting attacks, and also

[tor-dev] GoSC - Website Fingerprinting project

2014-03-10 Thread Marc Juarez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm a PhD student at COSIC (COmputer Security and Industrial Cryptography) in KU Leuven, Belgium. My research topic is related to network traffic analysis and I'm now focused in the more specific problem of website fingerprinting