[or-cvs] r21921: {website} convert the tsocks/dsocks discussion into a gsoc idea remove (website/trunk/en)

Thu Mar 11 08:53:42 UTC 2010

Author: arma
Date: 2010-03-11 08:53:42 +0000 (Thu, 11 Mar 2010)
New Revision: 21921

Modified:
   website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml
Log:
convert the tsocks/dsocks discussion into a gsoc idea

remove some items that we never want whenever people claim to
have solved them


Modified: website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml
===================================================================

--- website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml	2010-03-11 07:51:58 UTC (rev 21920)
+++ website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml	2010-03-11 08:53:42 UTC (rev 21921)
@@ -27,38 +27,19 @@
 <p>Tor has <a href="<page open-positions>">two open positions</a>.
 Please <a href="<page contact>">contact us</a> if you are qualified!</p>
 
-<a id="Usability"></a>
-<h2><a class="anchor" href="#Usability">Supporting Applications</a></h2>
+<a id="Documentation"></a>
+<h2><a class="anchor" href="#Documentation">Documentation</a></h2>
 <ol>
-<li>We need more and better ways to intercept DNS requests so they don't "leak" their
-request to a local observer while we're trying to be anonymous. (This
-happens because the application does the DNS resolve before going to
-the SOCKS proxy.)</li>
-<li>Tsocks/dsocks items:
-<ul>
-<li>We should patch Dug Song's "dsocks" program to use Tor's
-<i>mapaddress</i> commands from the controller interface, so we
-don't waste a whole round-trip inside Tor doing the resolve before
-connecting.</li>
-<li>We need to make our <i>torify</i> script detect which of tsocks or
-dsocks is installed, and call them appropriately. This probably means
-unifying their interfaces, and might involve sharing code between them
-or discarding one entirely.</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li>People running relays tell us they want to have one BandwidthRate
-during some part of the day, and a different BandwidthRate at other
-parts of the day. Rather than coding this inside Tor, we should have a
-little script that speaks via the <a href="<page gui/index>">Tor
-Controller Interface</a>, and does a setconf to change the bandwidth
-rate. There is one for Unix and Mac already (it uses bash and cron),
-but Windows users still need a solution.
-</li>
-<li>Speaking of geolocation data, somebody should draw a map of the Earth
-with a pin-point for each Tor relay. Bonus points if it updates as the
-network grows and changes. Unfortunately, the easy ways to do this involve
-sending all the data to Google and having them draw the map for you. How
-much does this impact privacy, and do we have any other good options?</li>
+<li>Help translate the web page and documentation into other
+languages. See the <a href="<page translation>">translation
+guidelines</a> if you want to help out. We especially need Arabic or
+Farsi translations, for the many Tor users in censored areas.</li>
+<li>Evaluate and document
+<a href="https://wiki.torproject.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO">our
+list of programs</a> that can be configured to use Tor.</li>
+<li>We have a huge list of <a href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/SupportPrograms">potentially useful
+programs that interface to Tor</a>. Which ones are useful in which
+situations? Please help us test them out and document your results.</li>
 </ol>
 
 <a id="Advocacy"></a>
@@ -76,28 +57,6 @@
 such as "Tor for Freedom!"</li>
 </ol>
 
-<a id="Documentation"></a>
-<h2><a class="anchor" href="#Documentation">Documentation</a></h2>
-<ol>
-<li>Please help Matt Edman with the documentation and how-tos for his
-Tor controller,
-<a href="<page vidalia/index>">Vidalia</a>.</li>
-<li>Evaluate and document
-<a href="https://wiki.torproject.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO">our
-list of programs</a> that can be configured to use Tor.</li>
-<li>We need better documentation for dynamically intercepting
-connections and sending them through Tor. tsocks (Linux), dsocks (BSD),
-and freecap (Windows) seem to be good candidates, as would better
-use of our new TransPort feature.</li>
-<li>We have a huge list of <a href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/SupportPrograms">potentially useful
-programs that interface to Tor</a>. Which ones are useful in which
-situations? Please help us test them out and document your results.</li>
-<li>Help translate the web page and documentation into other
-languages. See the <a href="<page translation>">translation
-guidelines</a> if you want to help out. We especially need Arabic or
-Farsi translations, for the many Tor users in censored areas.</li>
-</ol>
-
 <a id="Coding"></a>
 <a id="Summer"></a>
 <a id="Projects"></a>
@@ -731,6 +690,35 @@
 </li>
 
 <li>
+<b>Make torsocks/dsocks work on OS X</b>
+<br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>?</i>
+<br />
+<a href="http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/">Torsocks</a> and <a
+href="http://code.google.com/p/dsocks/">dsocks</a> are wrappers that will
+run applications, intercept their outgoing network connections, and push
+those connections through Tor. The goal is to handle applications that
+don't support proxies (or don't supporting them well). To get it right,
+they need to intercept many system calls. The syscalls you need to
+intercept on Linux differ dramatically from those on BSD. So Torsocks
+works fine on Linux, dsocks works ok on BSD (though it may be less
+maintained and thus might miss more syscalls), and nothing works well
+on both. First, we should patch dsocks to use Tor's <i>mapaddress</i>
+commands from the controller interface, so we don't waste a whole
+round-trip inside Tor doing the resolve before connecting. Second,
+we should make our <i>torify</i> script detect which of torsocks or
+dsocks is installed, and call them appropriately. This probably means
+unifying their interfaces, and might involve sharing code between them
+or discarding one entirely.
+</li>
+
+<li>
 <b>Bring up new ideas!</b>
 <br />
 Don't like any of these? Look at the <a

