Hi, thanks for your reply. What about this one: "Repeat Murdoch and Danezis's attack from Oakland 05 on the current Tor network" Is it still relevant? Should I dig into this task?

Cheers, spriver

Am 2015-01-02 15:34, schrieb Nick Mathewson:

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:31 AM, spriver spriver@autistici.org wrote:

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Hey everyone out there,

as given in the topic, are there any easy research tasks to start with? Or is somewhere some help needed?

Some of the project ideas towards the bottom of https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer are easy, and some have research. Maybe there's something there?

(Check before embarking on anything complicated there; that list hasn't got a thorough cleaning in a while)

cheers

Hi,

Nick Mathewson:

Some of the project ideas towards the bottom of https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer are easy, and some have research. Maybe there's something there?

(Check before embarking on anything complicated there; that list hasn't got a thorough cleaning in a while)

I hope this is not a diversion to the original topic. I am also looking at TOR network as my research topic for my Masters. It will be great if someone can show me some directions to continue. Following are the areas that I am currently exploring:

1) IPv6 and its impact on TOR Network. i) How does it impact if say users use PI to run relays on IPv6 from their homes. ii) Looking at Anycast and seeing if it will help to replace 'family' in the TOR relay list. (Nickm on IRC suggested to look first at what are the properties for a relay distribution mechanism, Please do share any existing document if any exists for this already.) With my limited search on IPv6+TOR, I havent found any research papers on this yet. Is it because this is completely new or is it because it is very naive or obvious. I did find the implementation wiki page on how to run TOR relay on IPv6 but no research papers.

2) Website Finger Printing attacks practicality Based on the paper, "A Critical Evaluation of Website Fingerprinting Attacks"[1], the authors do provide strong reasons as to why Website Fingerprinting attacks are not practical even in case of targetted attacks. 3) Exposing Malicious TOR Exit Relays The authors of the paper, "Spoiled Onions: Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays"[2] discuss novel ways to expose Malicious TOR Exit Relays. Have there been any further work on this? 4) Recently I was fortunate enough to meet Smari McCarthy from the MailPile Team[3] and he introduced me to SMTorP[4], SMTP over TOR protocol that his team has come up with. It seems very interesting to look at it in depth and find its pros and cons.

These are the current ideas that I have been hanging with for couple of months now. It will be really helpful if someone can share pointers on any of them.

[1] - https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sa499/papers/ccs-webfp-final.pdf [2] - https://www.petsymposium.org/2014/papers/Winter.pdf [3] - https://www.mailpile.is/ [4] - https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/wiki/SMTorP

Regards,

Vignesh Prabhu