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SPONSORED PROJECTS FOR 2023

Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights (S9)

  • Goal 1: Grow relationships between partners and build community in Latinoamerica and East Africa
  • Goal 2: Continue usability research and improve partner support
  • Goal 3: Increase capacity to meet user support needs
  • Goal 4: Use an open source platform for translation

Making the Tor network faster & more reliable for users in Internet-repressive places (S61) - COMPLETED

  • Streamlining the tuning of the network;
  • Deploying smarter methods for balancing traffic;
  • Evaluating and implementing promising performance and scalability research;
  • Proactively detecting, diagnosing, and resolving user-facing performance issues.

Expanding Research Frontiers with a Next-Generation Anonymous Communication Experimentation (ACE) Framework (S38) - COMPLETED

  • The goal of this project is to develop a scalable and mature deterministic network simulator, capable of quickly and accurately simulating large networks such as Tor

Information about the project.

Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet (s96)

The goal of this project is to improve circumvention technology in the Tor ecosystem, specifically in China.

  • Implement new pluggable transports and more bridges that are harder for censors to block to the Tor network.
  • Improve the bridge distribution systems so that it’s harder for censors to learn and block bridges and easier for users to get them.
  • Update a diverse set of proven open source circumvention applications so they are compatible with new bridges and censorship resistance/detection techniques.
  • Surge by deploying region-specific and varied outreach, and distribution localized efforts.

Tor VPN Client for Android (S101)

With this project we want to implement a Tor VPN.

Combating Malicious Relays (S112)

Our goal with this project is to ensure that human rights defenders, journalists, activists, and other marginalized people have a safe, secure experience on the Tor network by reducing malicious relay activity and improving the health of the network. To accomplish this we will:

  1. Implement expanded network monitoring system and tools.
  2. Establish community-driven behavioral agreements and consequences for relay operators.
  3. Make the Tor network more able to resist relay attacks.

A Rust Tor Implementation (S119)

We are working on deprecating the C code for tor and re-implementing tor in Rust.

Information about this project in the ZCash's website.

Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser refactoring (S131)

This is a specific project to refactor Tor Browser so is maintainable in the future

Localizing Tor tools and documentation into Arabic, Chinese, and Swahili (134) - COMPLETED

Our goal with the proposed project is to make Tor more accessible, usable, and well-known among civil society organizations, human rights defenders, activists, and journalists operating in the DRG space. To do so, we aim to localize Tor Browser, Tor circumvention tools, Tor documentation and training materials, and a Tor-based file sharing tool called OnionShare into Arabic, Chinese, and Swahili. We will also create localized demonstration videos on using Tor, circumventing censorship, and using OnionShare.

Work is done and all videos are published.

Supporting advocacy organizations, coalitions, and community groups with a public bank of user stories about the importance of encryption for use in advocacy and education efforts. (S144)

Our goal is to create and launch an easy-to-use repository of real and engaging user stories that highlight the day-to-day importance and applications of encryption to support allies in their advocacy and improve public reputation around this issue.

Support USAGM on circumventing censorship for their media sites (S145)

The goal for this project is to get more onion services setup out in the world. For completing that goal we will develop tools to help with setup and monitoring of Onion Services as well as help different USAGM services to setup and monitor their onion services.

Digital safety training for at-risk MENA communities and organizations (S149)

In this proposed project, the Tor Project will deliver three of these digital safety and security trainings to human rights defenders, activists, journalists, former detainees, and the families of these communities in the MENA diaspora.

Deprecating BridgeDB (S150)

Starts on December 1st. The goal is to migrate everything in BridgeDB to RDSys.

Rapid Response Turkmenistan (S152)

Starts on December 1st 2023 and it will take 7 months to complete.

Objectives that we will have achieved by the end of this project:

  • Objective 1: Tor tools and user support materials are available in Turkmen
  • Objective 2: Users have functional bridge options to connect to Tor

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