On Monday, August 13. 2012, 00:55:45 Roger Dingledine wrote:
This discussion really goes back to a simple question: is it better to use our funding for more design and development, or for strengthening the network? For exit relays, I think choosing "strengthen the network" is a great and worthwhile experiment. But for bridges, since the current Tor transport and current bridge distribution strategies are not great, I think it's better to use funding for better designs and better code. I should note that I actually encouraged VoA to want unpublished bridges: if we set up fast bridges and published them via bridges.torproject.org today, they'd get blocked quickly in China.
My understanding of bridge detection was, that Chinas GFW is able to detect the Tor SSL handshake and does active bridge probing after a successful connection to a (for the GFW) unknown bridge IP. So they should be able to block any bridge publish or unpublished very quickly, if someone from behind the GFW connects to a bridge. Am I missing something?
Regards,
torland