[tor-dev] bittorrent based pluggable transport

[Dan Cristian Octavian]

Hi Brandon,

Yeah that would be great, thanks! I'll do the packet capture when i get
back home from work.

A nice! Have fun at the conference!



On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Brandon Wiley <brandon at blanu.net> wrote:

> Hi Dan. Very cool. Would you like some analysis of how well your pluggable
> transport mimicks real BitTorrent traffic?
>
> I don't have time to install bitsmuggler myself right now as I am
> currently at a conference. However, if you send me a .pcap file recorded
> with tcpdump or Wireshark of bitsmuggler traffic, I will test it against
> BitTorrent traffic using the Adversary Labs tools I have been developing.
>
> By the way, George is on my committee as well!
>
> On Saturday, February 28, 2015, Dan Cristian Octavian <
> danoctavian91 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> My name is Dan, I've been working on a pluggable transport for Tor based
>> on bittorrent as cover traffic and wanted to let you know about it.
>>
>> https://github.com/danoctavian/bit-smuggler
>>
>> In a nutshell, I'm tunnelling a data stream through a bittorrent peer
>> connection that is created by real bittorrent clients (uTorrent for this
>> implementation) - to avoid "parroting" traffic pitfalls and active probing.
>> This made the implementation quite tricky to get right, so my reasoning is
>> that it's a worthy trade-off.
>>
>> I worked with Dr. George Danezis as my supervisor for the project. He
>> came up with the idea to try bittorrent, the crypto strategy and advised me
>> throughout.
>>
>> The docs in the repo contain more information. I researched this topic
>> for my master thesis, and the last 2 months i did a rewrite of the project.
>> At the moment I did not integrate with Tor (working on an Extended orPort
>> implementation) and I need to do more work on the server to make it run
>> properly as a long running process.
>>
>> Please ask me anything for clarification and let me know how can i make
>> this useful for the Tor project. Any kind of feedback is very welcome. I'm
>> working a 9-5 starting next week, but I'm going to work on it in my spare
>> time.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
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