[tor-reports] George's status report: August 2012

[George Kadianakis]

Hi,

this is a list of some Tor stuff I did during August:

- During FOCI I talked with many privacy/anonymity people about
  measuring the anonymity of the Tor network. I collected a list of
  ideas on metrics that might help Tor users and researchers by giving
  them a better idea of the security of the network.

  I passed the list to Sathya who is interested in calculating and
  visualizing these metrics. The list (with Sathya's additions) will
  probably be uploaded soon in Trac ticket #6460 [0].
  
- I started writing a Tor cell-protocol fuzzer in Python using the
  Peach fuzzing framework [1]. It doesn't cover much code yet, but I
  have my plans on improving it on the TODO file and I hope to play
  more soon.

- GSoC came to an end, and I started digging into Brandon's
  py-obfsproxy and pyptlib [2]. There is *lots* of debugging to be done,
  and many features to be added.

  I will try to bring py-obfsproxy to a functional state within the
  next weeks, so that people can play with it while I add new
  features.

[0]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6460
[1]: https://gitorious.org/tor_fuzz
[2]: https://github.com/blanu/py-obfsproxy
     https://github.com/blanu/pyptlib
     https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/asn/pyptlib.git
     https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/asn/tor.git