Sorry for hijacking, but I wasn't sure where best to put this. As a programmer, where should I start if I am considering lending my time to the tor project? While I feel that the BAD EXIT issue needs some love, I defer to those with more knowledge on the state of things to direct my efforts.
Is there a online resource I should peruse, or is it more of a secret society complete with hazing and chanting? Once again, sorry for the interruption. The Other Damian On Sat, Jul 4, 2015, 12:12 PM Damian Johnson <ata...@torproject.org> wrote: > > I find it more worrying that we do not "hear" about the 'more serious > > attacks' that keep them busy and don't allow them to look into i.e. > > 'AviatoChortler' (even after a few weeks). That might mean that there > > is a constant stream of 'more serious attacks' (without information I > > can only guess). > > ... or it could also be that we're simply spread too thin. ;) > > Bad relay detection is a space that doesn't traditionally get much > focus. Presently Philipp is the only person investing time here, and > he both has a day job and would prefer to do more interesting things > (like write code!) in his free time. > > As I see it there's three areas that need to be improved in this space... > > 1. Bad relay detection. Philipp's ExitMap [1] and my naive sybil > checker [2] are the only automated checks I'm aware of right now. That > leaves a lot of room for improvement. > > 2. Openness. Traditionally there's been some contention about where to > draw the line between openness and secrecy. Personally this is what > turned me off to this space [3]. Thankfully Philipp's moving us toward > being a little less secretive. [4] > > 3. Responsiveness. To get a relay flagged we need to persuade > directory authority operators to manually intervene by editing their > torrc. I get the impression all the dirauths that vote on BadExit now > use Philipp's git repository so hopefully this is better than it once > was. > > All this is to say 'help welcome!'. If this is a space you truly care > about then please make it better! Philipp can best say where more > hands would be useful. > > Cheers! -Damian > > [1] http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/spoiled_onions/ > [2] https://gitweb.torproject.org/doctor.git/tree/sybil_checker.py > [3] see the 'As of April 2013 this list is no longer being maintained' > note on https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/badRelays > [4] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13302 > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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