[tor-dev] Pluggable transports research

[Will Scott]

Hi Jodi,

There's some discussion of pluggable transport issues on 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/traffic-obf
that may be of interest.

In terms of stenography, you end up with a couple choices.
If you try to mimic existing protocols, you'll want to have 
read up on
"The Parrot is Dead" by Houmansadr et al

In the last couple years, there were a couple prototype 
transports embedding data within video games, namely
rook - https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2808141
and
castle - https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05904

I'm not aware of anything active on the image steganography 
front, but I think the question remains how the activity 
remains difficult to differentiate from legitimate activity.

--Will

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 04:42:52PM -0800, Jodi Spacek wrote:
> I'm a master's student at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver,
> Canada) where I'm primarily researching anonymous systems and censorship. I
> would be delighted to contribute to pluggable transports.
> 
> Of particular interest is image and audio data stenography - is anything is
> in the works for this or is it outdated? My aim is to add this
> functionality while fully testing and evaluating it as part of my thesis
> project. I refer to the list of idea suggestions here:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/ideas
> 
> Any guidance is greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!
> 
> Jodi
> 
> p.s.: Please advise if this is not the correct mailing list. and perhaps
> belongs in tor-assistants. If so, I will inquire there once my access is
> (hopefully!) granted.
> 
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