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Anonymity Development Roadmap
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Development phases
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Phase 1. Use Tor for network connectivity and to protect identity of client
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**note:** Client side is endpoint agnostic and server side has TCP endpoint support only.

**Dependencies**

* txsocksx: get this merged upstream -->> https://github.com/david415/txsocksx/tree/endpoint_parsers_retry_socks - *client Twisted endpoint for Tor*
* `Foolscap trac ticket 203`_: *switch to using Twisted Endpoints*
* `Tahoe-LAFS trac ticket 1010`_: *anonymous client mode*
* `Tahoe-LAFS trac ticket 517`_: *make tahoe Tor- and I2P-friendly*

.. _`Foolscap trac ticket 203`: http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/203
.. _`Tahoe-LAFS trac ticket 1010`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1010
.. _`Tahoe-LAFS trac ticket 517`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/517




Phase 2. Use I2p for network connectivity and to protect identity of client
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**Dependencies**

#. Tahoe-LAFS trac ticket regarding client endpoint string parameter concatenation
#. txi2p



Phase 3. endpoint-agnostic Foolscap server side
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Completing these two tickets will make Foolscap endpoint agnostic
on the server side. Therefore any Twisted server endpoint/parser
can be used with Foolscap

#. Teach twisted to serialize a listeningPort into a client endpoint
   descriptor - https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/7603
#. open new foolscap ticket - Add getClientEndpoint() to use the feature
   from twisted trac ticket 7603


Phase 4. Integrated Tor Hidden Service feature for storage servers
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#. teach tor to create Hidden Service directories with group
   rx perms https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11291
#. open new txtorcon ticket - Teach endpoint to use control port feature
   from tor trac ticket 11291