commit eda9c36984f2969c971746e482549da79d3e4da8 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Mon Mar 21 12:14:05 2011 -0400
Fix up a dangling sentence and a dangling idea --- proposals/180-pluggable-transport.txt | 25 ++++++++++++++----------- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/proposals/180-pluggable-transport.txt b/proposals/180-pluggable-transport.txt index 2df0ced..dc0564d 100644 --- a/proposals/180-pluggable-transport.txt +++ b/proposals/180-pluggable-transport.txt @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Design overview list it in your torrc. The program tells Tor which transports it provides. The Tor consensus should carry a new approved version number that is specific for pluggable transport; this will allow Tor to know when a - particular transport is known to be unsafe safe or non-functional. + particular transport is known to be unsafe, safe, or non-functional.
Bridges (and maybe relays) report in their descriptors which transport protocols they support. This information can be copied into bridge @@ -260,7 +260,8 @@ Managed proxy interface will give a comma-separated list. Clients MUST accept comma-separated lists containing any version that they recognize, and MUST work correctly even if some of the - versions they don't recognize are non-numeric. + versions they don't recognize are non-numeric. Valid version + characters are non-space, non-comma printing ASCII characters.
{Client only}
@@ -440,7 +441,9 @@ Bridge authority behavior
We need to specify a way to test different transport methods that bridges claim to support. We should test as many as possible. We - should NOT require that we have a way to tra + should NOT require that we have a way to test every possible + transport method before we allow its use: the point of this design + is to remove bottlenecks in transport deployment.
Bridgedb behavior:
@@ -451,15 +454,15 @@ Bridgedb behavior:
Implementation plan
- First, we should implement per-bridge socks settings (as - described above in "manually configuring a client proxy for a - bridge") and the extended-server-port mechanism. This will let - bridges run transport proxies such that they can hand-generate - bridge lines to give to clients for testing. + First, we should implement per-bridge proxies via the "external + proxy" method described in "Specifications: Client behavior". the + extended-server-port mechanism. This will let bridges run + transport proxies such that they can give bridge lines to + give to clients for testing, so long as the user configures and + launches their proxies on their own.
- Once that's done, we can improve usability a little bit by - implementing external proxies. Once that's done, we can see if we - need any managed proxies, or if the whole idea there is silly. + Once that's done, we can see if we need any managed proxies, or if + the whole idea there is silly.
If we do, the next most important part seems to be getting the client-side automatic part written. And once that's done, we