[tor-dev] Starting work on hidden services

[Qingping Hou]

If you decided to work on profiling hidden service, I would suggest you take a
look at chutney[1] and shadow[2]. Torperf is not under active maintenance
anymore and it can be easily replaced by chutney.

A fully automated hidden service profiling tool will be very handy. As the
community is currently designing next generation hidden service protocol, such
tool will help developers evaluate different designs and implementations.

[1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/chutney.git
[2] http://shadow.github.io/

On 03/21/2014 03:05 PM, Helder Ribeiro wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm an undergraduate student at University of Campinas, in Brazil, starting
> now I'll be working all year, >=20h/week on research about and improvements
> to tor hidden services under the supervision of Prof. Diego F. Aranha.
> 
> I'm generally very inexperienced both with Tor (I've been reading papers
> and specs, but don't know my way around the source yet) and with
> programming C in the real world (contrived class projects are basically all
> I've done), so there will be a lot to ramp up to.
> 
> Given the above time and experience constraints, I want to 1. do something
> that is not urgent/blocking; 2. stay as far away as possible from
> security-sensitive code, and 3. bite off something that is doable,
> including ramp-up, within a semester.
> 
> Going through the "Hidden Services need some love" blog post, I found the
> item "Analyze Hidden Service Circuit Establishment Timing With Torperf"
> fitting. From reading the tickets, it seems like I would need to add some
> instrumentation (#3459) and then do the measurements.
> 
> Some questions:
> 
> - Is there anything else that would fit the above constraints that you need
> done more? I'm starting to write the grant proposal (submission is in 2
> weeks) and I can still change it to anything else. (I'll dedicate the same
> amount of time to the project this year regardless of having the grant
> approved.)
> 
> - Who should I report to?
> 
> - Assuming I stick to the timing analysis above, are there any specific
> questions that you would like the analysis to answer?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Cheers,
> Helder
> 
> 
> 
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