[tor-dev] Tor Project proposal for GSoC 2015

[Kevin P Dyer]

Hi Juro,

Thanks for your interest in working on fteproxy this summer! Unfortunately,
as Fred highlighted [1], Tor won't be a host organization this year.

I'll send you an email directly. We'll figure something out.

-Kevin

[1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-March/008359.html


On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Juro P. Doi <juro.p.doi at netcourrier.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to participate to the GSoC 2015 (my first one) and contribute
> to the Tor project. I am registered as timide on the OFTC IRC network.
>
> I am currently student in master of computer science, and working with
> LibFTE for a school project.
> Actually, fteproxy can be used as a Tor bridge in order to hide a Tor
> connection. To use this type of transport, one have to know the address of
> a remote fte proxy server or use an hardcoded one. I would like to improve
> the use of fteproxy in order that a client could use his own remote server
> or at the opposite could ask for one. The main idea is that server nodes
> announce themselves to a distributed service that clients could query.
> I already had some mail exchanges with the maintainer of the FTE tools,
> who advised me to post my proposal to the mailing list.
>
> It can be done at two different points:
>   1. into fteproxy so that it's Tor independant and any service that use
> fteproxy could benefit of it (as Tor)
>   2. into Tor so that all type of bridges could be shared
>
> Anouncements should be done over multiple protocols an queried with
> fallback by the clients.
> These methods could be over services known by hardcoded IP/URL or set by
> the user.
> Types of services could be:
>   1. services like https://gitweb.torproject.org/bridgedb.git
>   2. IRC
>   3. mail
>   etc.
>
> What do you think about it?
>
> Thanks.
> Juro P. Doi
>
>
>
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