Maybe this question is more appropriate for tor-dev mailing list? How to submit a certain IP:Port to BridgeDB without using Tor? -naif -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Bridge: Why not just stateless TCP socket proxy / forwarders? Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:29:41 +0100 From: Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) <lists@infosecurity.ch> To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org On 1/15/12 11:54 PM, andrew@torproject.org wrote:

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 04:58:56PM +0100, lists@infosecurity.ch wrote 0.3K bytes in 11 lines about: : does Bridge really need to be Tor Servers? : Why they can't be just be simpler TCP socket proxy?

We've been through this already. ;) No, a bridge is just a way to reach the tor network from a tor client, it can be any proxy or tcp forwarder. I refer you to https://blog.torproject.org/blog/strategies-getting-more-bridge-addresses again. Specifically, approach four and five.

So, if a third party would like independently to: - develop a TCP forwarder (very simple code) - submit to the BridgeDB - decide to which host to connect back which would be the step do be done from technical standpoint of view? Because that way it would be possible for a lot of third party to develop very lightweight "Tor TCP Proxy" that doesn't have inside other than the basic logic to do the TCP Proxy. Is the availability for third party software/script for that goals considered? Tnx! -naif