August 2021 - anti-censorship-team - lists.torproject.org

Microsoft announces shutting down domain fronting attempts in Azure
by Cecylia Bocovich 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

It looks like Azure is going to shutdown domain fronting: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/03/26/securing-our-approach-to… There isn't a time frame listed in the article, and I haven't gotten any notifications through my Azure account yet. Cecylia

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SCTP-Based Pluggable Transport Prototype
by Alexander Mages 18 Sep '21

18 Sep '21

Hello Anti-Censorship Team, I was advised by Cecylia to share my project with this mailing list for the wider community to see and critique. For the past couple of months, I have been doing research under the advisory of Prof. Eugene Vasserman (CC) at Kansas State University, and this project is the result. I intend to continue working on privacy and anonymity, so if this project has potential I would be happy to keep working on it, as well as exploring other ways to contribute. The concept … [View More]

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ansible role - snowflake - updates
by Jacobo Nájera 27 Aug '21

27 Aug '21

Hello, I added new features to the ansible role of snowflake: - Support for: Debian Bullseye and Ubuntu Focal - Variable to update the standalone version of Snowflake If you are using the ansible role you can update snowflake via your playbook. First, upgrade ansible role ansible-galaxy install -f nvjacobo.snowflake Then add snowflake_update var: - hosts: all vars: snowflake_update: yes roles: - nvjacobo.snowflake Finally run your playbook. Documentation of ansible … [View More]

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Improving Snowflake performance by adjusting smux parameters
by David Fifield 04 Aug '21

04 Aug '21

While experimenting with another tunnel built on KCP and smux, I discovered that performance could be greatly increased by increasing the size of smux buffers. It's likely that doing the same can also improve performance in Snowflake. There are two relevant parameters, MaxReceiveBuffer and MaxStreamBuffer. MaxStreamBuffer seems to be the most important one to increase. https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/xtaci/smux#Config // MaxReceiveBuffer is used to control the maximum // number of data in the … [View More]

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