On 21 Jul 2016, at 05:20, Me info@gumbyzee.torzone.net wrote: So what are we going to do when Green shuts down the Bridge Authority server next month? Will it have a serious effect, or will there be any apparent issues or slowdowns?
We'll have to act before that. We're currently looking for a new operator for the bridge authority and a suitable hosting location, which we will want to include in Tor releases asap. For a while we will feed the data from the two concurrently running bridge authorities to the bridge database for distribution to users, then when Tonga (Lucky's auth) is shut down the new one will have taken over. We will lose the data about all bridges that aren't updated after the time Tonga is shut off. This means fewer bridges for bridge db to give out and potentially a drop in counted (not necessarily actual) bridge users of Tor.
Cheers Sebastian