Re: [GNUnet-developers] [Gsoc 2015] Project proposal on GNUnet-over-ICMP

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Heyhey ... 

I have already replied to Wen to discuss the topic. IMHO it is a
suitable topic for a 3 month project in particular since the design
process requires some preliminary work to fix a the protocol used not
focusing on just hacking. 

This is in particular true when a student is doing such a project who
has to familiarize with the existing code and the existing
functionality. Therefore I think this is a very suitable project.

I would prefer to have a well-designed and documented approach instead
of having a complex project requiring a student to just "hack" on a
gazillion line of code for 3 month ...

-M

On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 20:09 +0100, Bart Polot wrote:
> Hi Wen,
> 
> 
> In my opinion a ICMP transport would share most of the code with UDP
> and therefore it would be a minor feature, not a 3 month, full-time
> project like GSoC requires. We welcome students to participate, feel
> free to browse our bugtracker to find other feature requests that
> might be more to the scale of GSoC (the core traffic levels might be
> one, maybe something related to multicast).
> 
> 
> Happy hacking!
> 
> 
> Bart Polot
> 
> On 19 March 2015 at 18:20, Yuzhong Wen <address@hidden> wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         
>         
>         My name is Yuzhong Wen and I’d like to participate with a
>         project for GNUNet at Gsoc.
>         
>         
>         So from the idea page I saw that GNUNet is going to implement
>         multiple transport services support, so my idea is to build a
>         transport service which is based on ICMP. Specifically, I want
>         to build something like a Ping-tunnel between 2 peers. This
>         could be useful in the situation that the firewall has blocked
>         transport layer protocols (like a firewall blocks most of the
>         UDP and TCP connections using a white list policy) and only
>         allows ICMP packets to passthrough the gateway.
>         
>         
>         I just submitted the proposal, however I’m not sure if this
>         idea is viable in current GNUNet design since right now I’m
>         still trying to understand the architecutre of GNUNet. Is
>         there a mentor that can give me some advises on that? Thanks!
>         
>         
>         Here’s the link to my proposal, should be accessable by
>         organization members.
>         
>         
> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2015/ywen/5629499534213120
>         
>         
>         ———
>         
>         Best regards,
>         
>         Wen
>         
>         
>         
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