[anti-censorship-team] Best (simple) obfs4 deployment url?

Philipp Winter phw at torproject.org
Mon Jul 29 16:34:45 UTC 2019


On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 01:47:24AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> I am finishing up my Defcon slides, and I realized I don't know where
> to point people for setting up obfs4 bridges.
> 
> Google sends me to https://support.torproject.org/operators/operators-6/
> but I bet that's not up-to-date (but maybe it should become up-to-date).

I have never seen this page before and no, I wouldn't recommend this
guide.  We will try to get this removed or redirected.

> On the tor-relays list I see
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4proxy
> which is (a) a really long url, and (b) an intimidatingly long page.

Yes, this is our canonical guide.

Gus started porting the content over to this page:
<https://community.torproject.org/relay-operations/setup/bridge/>

The URL is slightly shorter and the content has sub pages but it has
fallen out of date already.  Given that our guide isn't changing much
anymore, I'll talk to Gus to figure out a way for me to keep it updated
so I don't have to rely on others.

> And I hear irl is working a 'tor-bridge' meta-deb:
> https://bugs.torproject.org/31153

This won't be done in time.  As I understand it, we rely on non-Tor
people to backport the package to stable, so it's not entirely in our
control.  Please correct me if I got this wrong, irl.

> So: assuming I want to tell a bunch of people to do something in a week
> and a half, using a url they can hastily scribble down from my slide,
> what should I tell them? :)

I would suggest to go with the following URL:
<https://community.torproject.org/relay-operations/setup/bridge/>

By Aug 8 we can have it synced again with our canonical instructions.
How does this sound to you?

Cheers,
Philipp



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