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<h1>Tor GUI Competition</h1>
<a href="index.html">Overview & Goals</a>
<a class="on" href="categories.html">What to Submit</a>
<a href="submit.html">How to Submit</a>
<a href="criteria.html">Judging & Timeline</a>
<a href="technotes.html">Technical Notes</a>
<a href="legal.html">Licensing</a>
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<h2>Categories</h2>
<p>
The design competition will proceed in two phases: first sketches and then
working code. You are invited to submit to either phase, or both phases.
For each phase, our panel of judges will recognize the
best submissions.
</p>
<p>
All qualifying entries will receive an <b>EFF Tor T-shirt</b>
(subject to availability). The best sketches and working implementations
will be published on the Tor website.
</p>
<p><b>Sketches:</b>
the goal of this phase is to produce a mock-up of a functioning interface.
This should include design documents describing how the interface should
function. If you want, it should also include graphical elements that
can be used by programmers.
</p>
<p>
A qualifying sketch will present an informal specification for a
design. That is, it will present with some degree of thoroughness all
of the major interfaces that we might expect to encounter, all of the
major functionality for the interface, and a reasonable story about
how it would be integrated into currently-existing tools (if, indeed,
it would be). One example, with more detail than we would require, is
<a href="http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/junits/promo_f.html";>the NetBeans
UI for JUnit</a>. Note that it walks through multiple interfaces,
highlighting the features and functions of the various buttons.
</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Most featureful interface</b> will be awarded to the graphic design
that would provide usable, clear access to the most aspects of the Tor
system, covering many or most of the categories on the "useful features"
list.</li>
<li><b>Most usable experience</b> will be awarded to the graphic
design that would provide the most unobtrusive Tor experience while still
covering all criteria (working, perhaps, on the "no news is good news"
theory).</li>
<li><b>Clearest implementation guidance</b> will be awarded to the
graphic design that provides the cleanest package of graphic elements
and design documentation to aid would-be implementers.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Code:</b> the goal of this phase is to produce a working
implementation. You may use any of the sketches, graphics, or ideas from
the first phase (with appropriate credit to
their authors), or you can make your own. See the <a
href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/ContestSamples";>Competition
Samples</a> wiki page for some other images you can reuse.
</p>
<p>
An acceptable entry will be a package of free software that builds and
runs. It can be a stand-alone application, or it can act as an extension
or plugin to other broadly-available free software. The entry will
demonstrate the points in the Goals section: that is, it will be able
to control, display, and maintain awareness as discussed above.
</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Most featureful interface</b> will be awarded to the application
that provides usable, clear access to the most aspects of the Tor system,
covering many or most of the categories on the "additional" list.</li>
<li><b>Most usable experience</b> will be awarded to the
application that provides the most unobtrusive Tor experience while
still covering all criteria (working, perhaps, on the "no news is good
news" theory).</li>
<li><b>Most flexible</b> will be awarded to the best system that runs
smoothly on all three of Windows, Linux, and OS X; extra points will be
awarded for additional systems.</li>
</ul>
<p>We reserve the right to award other awards as the entries deserve.</p>
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<a href="index.html">Overview & Goals</a>
<a href="categories.html">What to Submit</a>
<a href="submit.html">How to Submit</a>
<a class="on" href="criteria.html">Judging & Timeline</a>
<a href="technotes.html">Technical Notes</a>
<a href="legal.html">Licensing</a>
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<a class="wiki" href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/ContestFAQ";>Wiki/FAQ</a>
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<h2>Criteria</h2>
<p>Awards will be granted on the basis of (in rough preference order):</p>
<ul>
<li>Usability (<a
href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/ContestFAQ#DefineUsable";>what
does this mean?</a>)</li>
<li>Informativeness: can the user learn what they need to know, both in terms
of using the network and also in terms of security decisions?</li>
<li>Total user experience</li>
<li>Aesthetics</li>
<li>Responsiveness</li>
<li>Stability and robustness</li>
<li>Internationalization (multiple language support)</li>
<li>Installation experience</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Judges</h2>
<p>Judging will be led by a panel of prominent specialists in usability
and security, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Patrick Ball, Director, Human Rights Program, The Benetech
Initiative</li>
<li>Simson Garfinkel, Center for Research on Computation and Society,
Harvard University</li>
<li>Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Internet Security</li>
<li>Adam Shostack, Informed Security</li>
<li>Edward Tufte</li>
<li>Ka-Ping Yee, University of California, Berkeley</li>
</ul>
<h2>Timeline</h2>
<ul>
<li>Phase 1 deadline (sketches): November 30, 2005.</li>
<li>Phase 2 deadline (code): February 28, 2006.</li>
</ul>
<p>Winners will be announced on the webpage and also at the SOUPS 2006
conference. (Here's a suggestion on one approach to <a
href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/ContestFAQ#AcademicResearch";>academic
usability research on Tor</a>.)</p>
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<a href="criteria.html">Judging & Timeline</a>
<a href="technotes.html">Technical Notes</a>
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<h2>News:</h2>
<p>The <a
href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/ContestEntries";>phase
one submissions</a> are in! Our judges are starting to review them now.</p>
<p>Due to volume of interest, we've decided to push back the deadlines
for the GUI competition by 4 weeks: so the first deadline is Nov 30 2005,
and the second deadline is Feb 28 2006.</p>
<p>
We're excited to have just added <a href="criteria.html">Edward Tufte
and Bruce Schneier</a> to our already impressive list of judges. And don't
forget the free T-shirt for every submission!
</p>
<h2>Tor: GUI Competition Overview</h2>
<p>
Tor is a decentralized network of computers on the Internet that increases
privacy in Web browsing, instant messaging, and other applications. We
estimate there are some 50,000 Tor users currently, routing their traffic
through about 250 volunteer Tor servers on six continents. However, Tor's
current user interface approach — running as a service in the background
— does a poor job of communicating network status and security levels
to the user.
</p>
<p>
The Tor project, affiliated with the
<a href="http://www.eff.org/";>Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>, is
running a <b>GUI competition</b> to develop a vision of how Tor can
work in a user's everyday anonymous browsing experience. Some of the
challenges include how to make alerts and error conditions visible on
screen; how to let the user configure Tor to use or avoid certain routes
or nodes; how to learn about the current state of a Tor connection,
including which servers it uses; and how to find out whether (and which)
applications are using Tor safely.
</p>
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<h2>Goals</h2>
<p>Submitters will produce either sketches for a suggested user interface,
or a work of <a
href="http://www.opensource.org/";>Open Source Software</a>
that will provide a user interface to the Tor system by way of the
<a href="/cvs/control/doc/howto.txt">Tor Controller Protocol</a>.</p>
<p>We are looking for a vision of how Tor can work in a user's everyday
anonymous browsing experience.</p>
<p>Entries will:</p>
<ul>
<li>Allow the user to fully configure Tor rather than manually searching
for and opening text files.</li>
<li>Let users learn about the current state of their Tor connection
(for example, how well the current Tor connection is working),
and find out whether any of their applications are using it.</li>
<li>Make alerts and error conditions visible to the user.</li>
<li>Run on at least one of Windows, Linux, and OS X, on a
not-unusually-configured consumer-level machine.</li>
</ul>
<p>In addition, they may:</p>
<ul>
<li>Provide detailed information about which
applications, ports, or packets are (or are not!) passing through Tor,
including accounting for both Tor- and non-Tor traffic.</li>
<li>Provide
additional statistics about the Tor connection.</li>
<li>Give users more control over how their Tor behaves at certain times
of day or in other contexts (like operating as a server).</li>
</ul>
<p>Some examples of useful features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>How much bandwidth is Tor using? How does this compare
to the overall network traffic to/from the computer?</li>
<li>Is there network traffic from ports or applications that the user
intended to be anonymized?</li>
<li>What Tor servers does the user know about on the network? Where are
they? How available are they?</li>
<li>An interface for displaying or controlling Tor paths:
"show me the network from Africa by way of Asia". Think of the global
satellite map from the movie <i>Sneakers</i>.</li>
<li>Configure other running applications to use Tor (for example,
by modifying or working through the network stack, and/or by altering
application configurations).</li>
<li>Provide an elegant installer for Tor, your GUI submission, and
other supporting applications.</li>
<li>Make your GUI manage the Tor process and other supporting applications
-- start them, stop them, realize when they've died.</li>
<li>Provide meaningful defaults for a good Tor experience.</li>
<li>Provide application-level anonymity -- that is, not just paying
attention to transport anonymity on the level of Tor, but also paying
attention to the anonymity of the http headers, cookies, etc.</li>
<li>Let the user specify different Tor config option sets depending on
time of day (e.g. daytime vs. nighttime).</li>
<li>Provide useful controller functions for Tor servers too --
for example, walk the user through recommended bandwidth configurations
and exit policies.</li>
<li>Have a "minimized view" of your GUI for common use, and then a more
detailed view or set of windows when the user wants more detail.</li>
<li>Provide a button or some automatically updating interface to let
the user learn whether Tor is working currently, perhaps by accessing an
external what's-my-IP site and seeing if it thinks you're a Tor server;
and give useful messages and recommendations if it doesn't seem to
be working.</li>
<li>Provide a way to automatically configure local firewalls (ipchains,
Windows firewalls, etc) to let Tor traffic out (and in, for Tor
servers). As a bonus, configure it to prevent non-Tor traffic from
leaving (and notify when it tries).</li>
</ul>
<p>We're interested to see submissions that don't achieve all of the
above goals -- if it's useful to Tor or Tor users in any way, please
submit it!</p>
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<a href="submit.html">How to Submit</a>
<a href="criteria.html">Judging & Timeline</a>
<a href="technotes.html">Technical Notes</a>
<a class="on" href="legal.html">Licensing</a>
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<h2>Legal Notes</h2>
<p>By submitting your entry to be considered in the Tor GUI competition, you
hereby:</p>
<p>
<b>(A)</b> represent and warrant that (1) the entry was created by you and
that you own all rights to the entry or have the authorized rights to
submit such entry and grant the licenses below; and (2) that the
entry does not infringe on any third party copyright or other
intellectual property rights; AND
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<b>(B)</b> EITHER (1) grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive,
perpetual license to reproduce, edit, perform, display, publish, make
derivative works, and otherwise use the entry as we see fit,
including without limitation, incorporating (in whole or in part)
into the Tor software, and to sublicense such rights; OR, (2)
provide the entry pursuant to a license that complies with the
<a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php";>Open
Source Definition</a>, such as the 3-clause BSD, MIT, or
GPL licenses, or (where applicable) provide the entry licensed under
the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/";>Creative
Commons Attribution</a> license. If you provide the entry pursuant to
such a license, you must include the applicable information in your
submission.
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<a href="criteria.html">Judging & Timeline</a>
<a href="technotes.html">Technical Notes</a>
<a href="legal.html">Licensing</a>
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<h2>How to Submit an Entry</h2>
<p>Submissions for phase one (sketches) should come as:</p>
<ul>
<li>Images in an html page. The images must be able to be viewed on an
ordinary browser, e.g. Firefox. (You can submit proprietary formats too,
but if you do then you need to also export them to something we can
all read.) Must be licensed under a <a href="legal.html">free license</a>.</li>
<li>A design document (txt, html, pdf, or ps) as described in the
<a href="categories.html">Submission Categories</a> section.</li>
</ul>
<p>Submissions for phase two (code) should come as:</p>
<ul>
<li>Source code, with appropriate makefiles or documentation explaining
how to build it. Must be licensed under a free/open source license, as
defined by <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/";>OSI</a>. See <a
href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/ContestFAQ#DefineFree";>this
FAQ entry</a> for clarification.</li>
<li>Compiled binaries or bytecodes for at least one platform of choice.</li>
<li>A design document (txt, html, pdf, or ps) providing an overview of
what major functions to look for and what functions were implemented.</li>
</ul>
<p>To submit your entry, make a web page with
all your materials on it, then add a line to <a
href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/ContestEntries";>The
GUI Competition Entries Wiki</a>. (If you don't have a web page of
your own to put your entry on, find a friend who does, or mail <a
href="mailto:tor-gui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>tor-gui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</a> and we'll
put it up on a temporary page.</p>
<p>If you put it up on your own site, you can continue to update and
modify it. Remember that submitting early means you can get feedback
from Tor users and make it into a better submission!</p>
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<a href="index.html">Overview & Goals</a>
<a href="categories.html">What to Submit</a>
<a href="submit.html">How to Submit</a>
<a href="criteria.html">Judging & Timeline</a>
<a class="on" href="technotes.html">Technical Notes</a>
<a href="legal.html">Licensing</a>
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<h2>Technical Notes</h2>
<p>Shortly before phase two begins, the Tor developers will release
a canonical version of Tor. This is the version that will be used for
judging the competition; please ensure that you use this version. Bugfixes
to this version of Tor will be announced to the competition web site.</p>
<p>The Tor developers will also release test rigs (libraries) in both Java
and Python that demonstrate Tor's controller protocol. Code submissions
may be able to save a lot of time by using this code as a skeleton. You
can check out the <a href="http://tor.eff.org/cvs/control/";>development
versions of these libraries</a> now.
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