Hi Roger,
Thank you for the kind words and for your comments regarding the name of our project!
This makes total sense and we’ll work towards finding a new name for our pluggable transport before we get it deployed (hopefully soon!).
Best, Diogo (on behalf of our team)
On Sep 1, 2022, at 19:45, Roger Dingledine arma@torproject.org wrote:
On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 05:30:23PM +0000, Diogo Barradas wrote:
Thank you again for all the details and suggestions!
We???ll keep you posted on our advances and work towards integrating TorCloak with Tor in the near future.
Hi Diogo!
Great to hear from you and great to hear that you're working in the "deploying pluggable transports" space.
(Wearing my Tor comms team hat) Hopefully this is the perfect time to bring up the name topic: everybody starts off by naming their thing TorSomething, but we try to discourage names of that form: in practice these names confuse users and the community about who made the thing, whether it's "official", where to turn for support, etc.
This is why the other Tor pluggable transports aren't named TorObfuscator, TorRTC, TorFront, TorTunnel, etc.
See more details about how we hope names will work here: https://www.torproject.org/about/trademark/#trademark-faq-4
In particular, we think it's fine to use TorFoo in a research paper title, because those don't confuse users about software; but once there is software for users (and it sounds like you're heading that way, which is great!) then usually there comes a point where you wish in retrospect you had picked a more unique name. :)
Thanks! --Roger