[tor-dev] George's status report: June 2012

[George Kadianakis]

Hi,

this is a list of some Tor stuff I did during June:

- Provided patches for the rest of the tor-0.2.3.x tickets that were
  reported/assigned by/to me [0].

- Helped set up a mailing list to host daily censorship reports as
  reported by George Danezis' censorship anomaly detection tool [1].
  I hope to speak with George soon to improve and finalize the second
  version of his script [2].

- Finished coding the automatic port forwarding for transport proxies
  (#4567). It needs some more love based on Nick's review, but it's
  pretty-much done.

- Helped with the .et censorship incident (#6045). We bisected their
  DPI fingerprints and found some interesting stuff on how their DPI
  engine works. We should probably do some more research and then
  write a technical blog post.

- Wrote d0wser, a little program which (under some specific
  conditions) given a censored payload, brute forces its DPI
  fingerprints by using the DPI firewall as a censorship oracle [3].

- Helped the Tor censorship encyclopedia project [4]. It needs much
  more attention/content/editing.
  
- Helped Brandon Wiley with his GSoC project [5].

[0]: #5603, #5589, #5799, #6218, #5099, #6226

[1]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2011-September/002923.html
     https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6067
     https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-censorship-events

[2]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/metrics-tasks.git/blob/HEAD:/task-2718/detectorv2.py

[3]: http://gitorious.org/d0wser/d0wser/blobs/master/d0wser.go

[4]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6149
     https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/OONI/censorshipwiki

[5]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2012-May/003561.html