Thanks 'atagar'! I've already been through the links that you gave me...

My hesitation to begin with anything at all was that I was not sure

to go directly into resolving bugs, I thought maybe prior knowledge of

networking & protocols (in-depth) was very necessary. But now that

I think of it, this way is the best way even though it might be hardest!

As to Nick Mathewson, I am ready to devote quite a lot of my time to

Tor irrespective of GSoC. I probably should not have mentioned GSoC

to begin with, but my problem is that recently my college network centre

blocked all outgoing connections through all but port 8080 i.e. the

http proxy port. The firewall & port blocking now blocks IRC & a lot of

other things inclusive of Tor. Thus (I am not sure of the cause-effect implication)

I can only spectate IRC chat through http://www.mibbit.com & am

unable to comment. Any alternative is always welcome!

This might be totally out-of-context in regard to the mailing list but

I really want to contribute to Tor due to the basic idea it represents,

that of, freedom of speech & anonymity & a lot of other things by

acting in a kind of rebellious way, which is the icing on the cake!

Thanks again!

-Ashish Patil