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= Sponsor 4 =
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Project Title: Core Tor and Tor Browser Development
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Project Period: December 1, 2016 - March 31, 2018
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== Project !Goals/Activities ==
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The deliverables of this proposal are the ''''activities'''' listed below for each team, Core Tor and Tor Browser.
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=== Core Tor ===
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* '''Objective 1: Empower users with limited access to powerful devices and fast networks to access and more easily use secure, private networks in faster, more stable online interactions.'''
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* '''Subobjective 1.1:''' Reduce Tor processing overhead for low-bandwidth scenarios.
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* '''Activity:''' Improve the Directory Authority consensus part of the Tor network in order to optimize low bandwidth users experience.
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=== '''Tor Browser''' ===
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* '''Objective 2: Make it easier and more attractive for non-technical and mainstream users to use censorship evasion software to access blocked online resources and communities.'''
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* '''Subobjective 2.1:''' Improve usability of “Tor Launcher” censorship configuration wizard.
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* '''Activity:''' Improve usability of Tor Browser initial configuration (“Launcher”) UI.
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* '''Subobjective 2.2:''' Improve accessibility of censorship-circumvention “Bridges”
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* '''Activity:''' Implement Automatic Bridge discovery for censored users.
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* '''Objective 3: Develop and implement defenses against online profiling and attacks in the face of emergent and increasingly sophisticated security and privacy threats.'''
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* '''Subobjective 3.1:''' Further defend against profiling through browser fingerprinting attacks
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* '''Activity 1:''' Continue to improve third party tracking and fingerprinting defenses.
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* '''Activity 2:''' Integrate a custom Panopticlick Instance to measure Tor Browser specific fingerprintability adding new tests as needed.
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* '''Subobjective 3.2:''' Reduce exposure to unknown future vulnerabilities.
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* '''Activity 1:''' Add selfrando to the regular browser alphas and investigate shipping it to stable users (Linux-only for now).
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* '''Activity 2:''' Test impact and viability of hardening options: A) using Intel's MPX (memory protection extension) for hardened builds, B) deploying STACK, which checks for optimization-unstable code, C) SafeSEH (secure exception handling).
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* '''Activity 3:''' Test Undefined Behavior Sanitizer (UBSan) support for either hardened standard builds or special QA builds, in order to identify critical compiling problems early.
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* '''Subobjective 3.3:''' Reduce overall potential impact of browser vulnerabilities.
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* '''Activity:''' Explore sandboxing options and adopt Mozilla’s sandbox when ready.
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* '''Subobjective 3.4:''' Eliminate emergent security and privacy holes in the browser foundation.
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* '''Activity 1:''' Review and alter or disable new browser features based on security and privacy risk.
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* '''Activity 2:''' Rigorously memory safety test (eg: fuzzing) using Address Sanitizer builds.
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* '''Subobjective 3.5:''' Enhance Tor Browser’s “Security Slider” security configuration wizard.
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* '''Activity:''' Refresh the Security Slider based on vulnerability history for each ESR release.
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* '''Subobjective 3.6:''' Browser patch cleanup & merge with Firefox
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* '''Activity 1:''' Review the new features and changes in each Firefox ESR release for privacy and Tor safety.
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* '''Activity 2:''' Update and merge as many of our current patches with Mozilla as possible.
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* '''Subobjective 3.7:''' Increase response capacity for new defenses and capabilities by optimizing release processes.
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* '''Activity 1:''' Update our build system (e.g., toolchains and reproducible builds process) to handle subsequent Firefox ESR releases and specifically in response to Firefox changing their tools and outputs.
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* '''Activity 2:''' Optimize automated source-controlled software distribution (Gitian).
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* '''Activity 3:''' Optimize build processes (e.g., unified vs split, consistency across multiple products)
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== Project Tracking ==
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'''December 2016 / January 2017'''
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* [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor4/CoreTorTeam-Dec%3A16-Jan%3A17-Report.txt Core Tor Dec 2016 - Jan 2017 report]
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* [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor4/TorBrowserTeam-December-2016-Report.txt Tor Browser Dec 2016 report]
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* [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor4/TorBrowserTeam-January-2017-Report.txt Tor Browser Jan 2017 report]
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'''February 2017'''
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* [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor4/CoreTorTeam-February-2017-Report.txt Core Tor Feb 2017 report]
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* [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor4/TorBrowserTeam-February-2017-Report.txt Tor Browser Feb 2017 report]
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'''March 2017''' |
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