It's unclear to me how this would be different than standard panopticlick with >50% of the users using TBB. But those not using TBB with had browser statistics like the rest of the web (for example, all of the tor2web traffic).
-V On Sunday, 24 April 2016, Pierre Laperdrix <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tor Community! > > My name is Pierre and I'm a second year PhD student from France working > on browser fingerprinting. I'm really fortunate that my proposal for > this year Google Summer of Code has been been selected. > > My goal for this summer is to set up a website similar to Panopticlick > or AmIUnique that will collect data to improve Tor fingerprinting > defenses. The collected data will be used to detect if there are > differences between browsers that could ultimately lead to a user's > identification. With that knowledge, developers will be able to patch > the Tor browser to prevent leak of identifiable information and > reinforce the anonymity of Tor users. I also plan to add details on > browser fingerprinting for users who are not familiar with the subject > so that they may learn about its mechanisms and the potential dangers > linked to it. I'll also try to implement a page where Tor users can see > how far they are from an "acceptable" fingerprint so that they may tweak > their browser in order to have a fingerprint that is shared by many more > users. > > I'll officially start coding at the end of May but in the mean time, > I'll familiarize myself with the Django framework that I plan to use and > I'll lock down the exact set of features that I'll include in the very > first version of the project. > My primary mentor is Georg and my secondary mentors are Gunes and > Nicolas. I'll post bi-weekly reports to the tor-dev mailing list and to > my blog to inform everyone of my progress. > > If you have any questions about the project, don't hesitate to ask me. > The name of the project has not been found yet so feel free to send me > any suggestions that you may have. You can reach me here or on IRC where > my handle is SuperOctopus. > > Cheers! > Pierre > >
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