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[tor-commits] [webwml/staging] Drop 'Make Stegotorus deployment ready' project idea



commit 6b4d2f149d3f6c21109757795b2e6f07052fce76
Author: Damian Johnson <atagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Sat Feb 4 16:12:04 2017 -0800

    Drop 'Make Stegotorus deployment ready' project idea
    
    Didn't hear back from vmon.
---
 getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml | 138 -------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 138 deletions(-)

diff --git a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
index 90f0500..166b425 100644
--- a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
+++ b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
@@ -931,144 +931,6 @@ ideas.
     </p>
     </li>
 
-    <a id="stegotorus"></a>
-    <li>
-    <b>Make Stegotorus deployment ready</b>
-    <br>
-    Language: <i>C++</i>
-    <br>
-    Likely Mentors: <i>vmon</i>
-    <br><br>
-    <p>
-    <a
-    href="https://github.com/TheTorProject/stegotorus/tree/master/src";>Stegotorus</a>
-    is a PT framework which streamline the development stealthier pluggable
-    transport. An HTTP pluggable transport is already implemented in Stegotorus
-    framework and can be used when encrypted payloads are throttled and only
-    ephemeral connections are tolerated.
-    </p>
-
-    <p>
-    The majority of work on Stegotorus is done and it can be deployed with a relatively minor improvements including:
-    </p>
-
-    <ul>
-      <li><b>#8098 A config file file for Stegotorus</b>
-        <p>
-        Stegotorus needs many configuration settings specially on the bridge
-        side. This include also the configuration required by each steg module.
-        Currently the configuration is fed to Stegotorus as command line
-        arguments but a file like torrc is needed so all tweaking can be read
-        from there.
-        </p>
-
-        <p><i>
-        Current Status and work needed to be done: The code for reading the
-        config file is written by SRI but it is not yet used in the Stegotorus
-        to read the config.
-        </i></p>
-      </li>
-
-      <li><b>#8101 Debugging the transparent proxy</b>
-        <p>
-        Stegotorus http module uses other websites payload to hide and serve
-        censored traffic. As such it needs to decide if the request is
-        genuinely to the auxiliary website, in that case becomes a transparent
-        proxy and serves the website content as requested, or if the request is
-        actually a request to serve censored material which should be delivered
-        to steg modules.
-        </p>
-
-        <p><i>
-        Current Status: This is completely implemented. However, the transparent proxy sometimes crashes and need to be triaged, debugged and fixed.
-        </i></p>
-      </li>
-
-      <li><b>#11337 refactoring the steg module code</b>
-        <p>
-        The http steg module code, although not essentials to the core of the
-        Stegotorus. needs some improvement and clean up. The solution is to
-        refactor the steg modules as children of FileStegMod.
-        </p>
-
-        <p><i>
-        Current status and work needed to be done: This has already been done
-        but still needs testing and refactoring before it can be reliably merge
-        to the master branch.
-        </i></p>
-      </li>
-
-      <li><b>#8089 Adding Elligator to Stegotorus handshake and test</b>
-        <p>
-        The current Stegotorus handshake is distinguishable from random byte
-        string, which can be used to flag and detect Stegotorus traffic
-        deterministically and need to be implemented similar to
-        ScrambleSuite. Also because the capacity of client to server channel
-        might be slim depending on the choice of steg module it is desirable
-        to be implemented using Elliptic curve crypto. Hence, Elligator
-        protocol is ideal solution for this situation. All we need is to replace Stegotorus handshake by Elligator.
-        </p>
-
-        <p><i>
-        Current Status and work needed to be done: Elligator handshake code is
-        included in stegotorus code base, it is only needed to be called by
-        instead of the current handshake and be tested.
-        </i></p>
-      </li>
-
-      <li><b>Make Stegotorus memory safe by using shared pointers</b>
-        <p>
-        Stegotorus has large code base and it is not written in a memory safe
-        languages. To facilitate its audit, we need to replace (almost all) use
-        of pointers to shared pointers.
-        </p>
-
-        <p><i>
-        Current Status: No progress has not been done.
-        </i></p>
-      </li>
-
-      <li><b>Security Audit and writing more unit test</b>
-        <p>
-        To be able to deploy Stegotorus for real world use we need to audit the
-        code and write more unit test covering new aspects of the Stegotorus
-        (new http transport, proxy server, Elligator handshake)
-        </p>
-
-        <p><i>
-        Current Status: No progress has been done.
-        </i></p>
-      </li>
-
-      <li><b>SRI branch merging</b>
-        <p>
-        Stegotorus has been forked from the initial development from SRI. Now
-        that SRI is hosting Stegotorus publicly it is desirable to merge the
-        two branches so we can benefit from both developments.
-        </p>
-
-        <p><i>
-        Current Status: No progress has been done.
-        </i></p>
-      </li>
-
-      <li><b>#8099 deterministic build</b>
-        <p>
-        To make deterministic build possible we need to build many of
-        Stegotorus dependency from scratch. Boost library is a a huge
-        dependency for Stegotorus to access the file system. As we are only
-        planning to deploy Stegotorus bridges on Linux machines we can simplify
-        such access without that dependency. By dropping such dependency, it
-        should be straight forward to have deterministic build for Stegotorus.
-        </p>
-
-        <p><i>
-        Current Status: No progress has been done.
-        </i></p>
-      </li>
-    </ul>
-    </li>
-
     <a id="letsEncryptClient"></a>
     <li>
     <b>Expand the OS and Server Support of the Let's Encrypt Client</b>



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