Quick Info
- Lecturer:
- Prof. Dr. Steffen Wendzel
- M.Sc. Sebastian Zillien
- SWS: 8
CS8501.001
Projekt Internet Measurement
Projekt Internet Measurement
We offer projects in the fields of “Internet Censorship”, “Censorship Circumvention”, “Internet Measurement” and connected fields.
Below is a list of topics which are currently open. Don't hesitate to reach out to us, to discuss your own project ideas.
Topics
“CensorLab is a censorship emulation platform that allows developers to test various censorship strategies against their own censorship circumvention tools. By proactively attempting to censor their own protocols, censorship circumvention developers can develop stronger threat models and strengthen their own tools against past, present, and future censor strategies.” from censorlab.cs.umass.edu.
The goal of this project is to deploy, test and evaluate CensorLab for its usefulness for our research group.
Some websites discriminate against users who access them through the Tor network by including additional captchas, requiring phone numbers, or downright blocking access.
In this project you will work on the measurement, documentation and evaluation of these discrimination practices.
A Tor pluggable transport layer is a component of the Tor network designed to obfuscate and disguise Tor traffic, making it more difficult for censors to detect and block.
There are several approaches to obfuscating Tor traffic by scrambling content or masquerading it as other traffic.
The goal of this project is to develop a new pluggable transport that uses a known covert channel technique.
Summer 2025