[tor-dev] GSoC 2014: Continue the torouter project ... ?

Hi, my name is Benjamin Keeser. I am a student of computer science (master of software engineering) from Munich, Germany. I support and work in different social movements against suppression and control since many years. Consequently I am interested in the Tor project. Actually I am working with some others from different political media collectives on an book how to protect oneself from total digital surveillance. We already discussed the idea of a router which tunnels all the traffic over Tor. My guidelines in this case were the onion pi project and the freedombox. By chance I realized that there is already a similar project under your maintaince (and I hope this mail is not to late). But there wasnÂt any activity since 16 months. What is the reason? Are you planning to continue the project? In our work of making computers of people a little bit safer it would make really sense to have a router which protects users via Tor and also filters recognizable parameters via privoxy. I discussed this point also, because I donÂt see a similar project in the near future (the freedombox project also appears not to make this pogress in the next time - which is although a reason for the router project).

In my case I would also combine the router project (GSoC) with my masterÂs thesis. And my plan is to do a PhD afterwards. So would there be a possibility to give the project a new chance. What do think about this idea?

These are some thoughts about the implementation / further development

- stable core features

- dontÂt reinvent the wheel: there are already some reusable features in tails/freedombox (e.g. dns handling, network filter)

- debian hardening / openwrt

- implementation of privoxy to obtain a not recognizable fingerprint.â

- future: modular system (email-server, file space, webspace, ***relay***), web interface

Best regards,

Benjamin Keeser