[tor-dev] GSoC 2017 - Questions

[Damian Johnson]

Hi Krishna, absolutely! We love having new volunteers be it through
GSoC or not. Hell, most of us got our start outside the program. ;)

I'll leave the crypto parallelism questions to Nick, George, David,
and others far more knowledgeable of the core tor codebase than me.


On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Krishna Shukla
<karatekrishna at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm Krishna Shukla, I'm studying a bachelors of computer science at the
> University of Queensland.
> I guess the relevant subjects I've studied so far covers C and Unix
> programming, Computer Networks, Algorithms and Data Structures, and
> Programming in the large. (got a high distinction in all the above)
>
> My most important question is if I could work on a project but not actually
> be apart of GSoC? - I am unfortunately ineligible as my brother works as a
> Security Engineer at Google Sydney. And if the above is okay would it also
> be okay to not have to strictly abide by their timeline as I don't actually
> have holidays during this time in Australia but I'd like to contribute in my
> free time nonetheless!
>
> As for projects themselves I'm really interested in the relay crypto
> parallelism and the hidden service crypto parallelism. And I have a couple
> of questions regarding them.
>
> For the relay crypto parallelism I wanted to know what is there left to be
> done? When I looked at the tickey #1749 someone called towelenee made a few
> patches that already made it multi threaded, were these changes just not
> accepted? Also wanted to know if specific knowledge about circuit
> cryptography was required? As I know of it, but I certainly cannot make my
> own fully homomorphic cryptosystem, is it more in the steps of the system
> has already been made, it just needs to be parallelised correctly?
>
> It also states the code is written to expect immediate responses, I'm not
> sure what you mean by that, after all there is always a slight delay, and if
> it becomes multi threaded we can never know what is running what when, so is
> it more someone is waiting at the other end of a socket and needs it ASAP,
> or is it internally things want the answer quickly (in which case I don't
> know how to solve it other than uses mutexes which is probably not so okay)?
>
> I am interested in the hidden service crypto parallelism in its own right,
> but I was also thinking weather it would be a feasible idea to combine the
> two projects and create a multi-threaded decryption library that could be
> linked to both the tor relay and the hidden services (could release it as a
> cryptosystem library, all the fully homorphic cryptosystem libraries I found
> used GPL licenses and thus not compatible with tors), or are their
> requirements too far apart?
>
> Also I was wondering how the Ahmia automated blacklisting was planned to
> work? As in how would a list of child abuse sites be fetched? Honestly I
> don't actually know python, I've worked with it and Django before in a
> hackathon once, but I cannot claim any real knowledge in it, but at the same
> time I am passionate about the topic of child abuse, and I think if I can
> help reduce its demand in anyway by making it harder to find, I'd say it's
> some good added to the world.
>
> Apologies about the long mail guys,
> Krishna Shukla
>
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