Hi Beat, See the thread about this in Feb at https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-February/003908.html. Cheers, Matt On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:09 PM, I <beatthebastards@inbox.com> wrote:

Does ExtORPort xxxx replace Orport xxx?

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I <beatthebastards@inbox.com> writes:

Does ExtORPort xxxx replace Orport xxx?

No, you need both.

Delton Barnes:

George Kadianakis:

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You can use git master or pip to upgrade to 0.2.7. We have also notified the obfsproxy Debian maintainers and we should soon have obfsproxy-0.2.7 packages ready (we will send an email to this list when they are ready).

Looks like obfsproxy-0.2.7-1 is now available in unstable. Will there be packages for another Debian repository or is unstable the one to use for now?

I upload backported packages to deb.torproject.org after succesfull migration to Debian testing. -- Lunar <lunar@torproject.org>

On 3/24/2014 11:01 AM, Viking God wrote:

Where can I download an obfsproxy bridge bundle nowadays? I use both win and linux(but not debian/ubuntu).

I have found dual information pages about setting up obfsproxy+tor in Debian/Ubuntu Here: https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-instructions.html.en And here: https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-debian-instructions.html.en

But no instructions for other OS:es, and no direct download links with compiled packages/programs here: https://www.torproject.org/dist/

How do you suppose that people will be able to help setting up obfsproxy bridges, when there isn't any way to get instructions or packages/programs?

Previously I ran an obfsproxy bridge and saw the amount of traffic get lower and lower, at the end it was only about 2-10 MB of traffic per week and with very few users. Some weeks I go no users so I stopped wasting my electricity and stopped running the obfs-bridge. But now I would like to try again after a couple of months pause. I'm interrested to see if the internet-blocking in Turkey might have caused some more traffic.

I also used to run a normal bridge up until a couple of weeks ago but saw the traffic get as low as around 50MB per week, while normally I used to get around 1-2GB per week so I shut it down too. I asked myself: "What's the point of wasting energy and at the same time making it easier to hack into my network, when I'm not even helping the world?". So I shut it down too.

Perhaps some changes in the tor network after the release of tor 0.2.4 has reduced the number of bridge and obfsproxy users globally? Due to the constant flow of bugs in the different tor-related software and bundles, my first guess is that the problem is with changes in tor plus related software. A look at the bug tracker makes me wonder if there are more things in the tor related software that do work or don't work??? ;-) But perhaps more bridges are blocked nowadays by the filters that various countries apply to the internet? Or perhaps less countries block their internet users so less people need to use bridges? My ISP isn't known for blocking anything and I've never heard of any government blocking of tor in the EU, so the problem is probably not with my ISP nor the EU. I have always been running the latest stable release of the bundles, so It doesn't have anything to do with old versions.

So my questions: Where can I find a obfsproxy bridge bundle for rpm-linux and for windows? Is there any good explanation to why the traffic to my normal bridge and my obfsproxy bridge got lower and lower after the release of tor 0.2.4 as stable?

George Kadianakis skrev 2014-03-15 14:36:

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Hello,

a few days after the release of obfsproxy-0.2.6, we spotted a bug where scramblesuit would basically reject clients if they try to connect a second time after a short amount of time has passed [0].

This is a serious correctness bug and bridge operators are advised to upgrade to obfsproxy-0.2.7 as soon as possible (we want to start suggesting scramblesuit to users and we need to make sure that most bridges have already upgraded by then).

You can use git master or pip to upgrade to 0.2.7. We have also notified the obfsproxy Debian maintainers and we should soon have obfsproxy-0.2.7 packages ready (we will send an email to this list when they are ready).

Furthermore, obfsproxy-0.2.7 clients now support SOCKS5 (thanks Yawning!) and the changes also include a few performance enhancements for obfs3 and scramblesuit.

Please upgrade your bridges.

Thanks!

PS: We will do yet another obfsproxy release soon-ish (probably in the next 2 weeks) which will include some more scramblesuit improvements and other miscellaneous code changes. Again, we will inform you by sending an email to this list.

[0]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11100

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A very short time (a few hours) after switching my relay from an intermediate relay configuration to a bridge configuration I found that I was no longer blocked from accessing two of the three commercial websites that I knew had previously blocked my IP address. That gives me a few points with the wife. Since I did not find specific instructions for obfusproxy configuration, I am not sure whether my relay has up to date obfusproxy or not, but probably not since Vialia reports Tor 0.2.4.21. rather than the 3.6-Beta 1 which I was trying to install on my windows 7 computer. David C