Research ideas

These are research project ideas relating to anti-censorship work at Tor. If you're interested in working on any of them, feel free to reach out to us!

Snowflake enumeration attempts

Question: If an adversary were to try to enumerate snowflake proxies, how many would they see? How much churn is there in Snowflake proxies? How effectively can they block Snowflake this way?

Some relevant discussion/links:

Discussion during anti-censorship meeting: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-04-15.58.html
Ticket for implementing Snowflake churn metrics: tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake#34075