[tor-relays] Metrics

[telekobold]

Hi,

On 06.09.23 09:25, gus wrote:

> Have you tried to connect to your own bridge and see if it works?
> Here is how you build your obfs4 bridge line (note: it's your bridge
> fingerprint and not your hashed bridge fingerprint):
> https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/post-install/

there seems to be a mismatch between the description linked above and 
the Tor browser UI to manually add a Tor bridge: If one starts the Tor 
browser, click on "Configure Tor connections" and then on "Add a Bridge 
Manually" (seems to be the only possibility to test your own Bridge 
directly in the Tor browser), there is only the option to provide the 
bridge's IP address and the obfs4 port, but not, as mentioned in the 
description linked above the fingerprint and the obfs4 certificate. When 
I try to add the fingerprint and the obfs4 certificate of my bridges, no 
connection is established.

So, where is the advantage on additionally providing the fingerprint and 
the obfs4 certificate when connecting to Tor (I can imagine that it has 
something to do with authenticity)? And how can one do that using the 
Tor software respectively the Tor browser bundle?

Kind regards
telekobold