[anti-censorship-team] Do we expect to have as many standalone Snowflake proxies as we do?

[Nathan of Guardian]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2021, at 8:54 AM, Cecylia Bocovich wrote:
> On
> More realistically, I think this might be due to misconfigured Orbot
> proxies. I just had a look at the Orbot source code, because I
> remembered them mentioning they wanted to allow users to use snowflake
> as a Tor PT and behave as a proxy:
> 
> https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot/blob/920a4e30a6624bc79eeef252a30cf9924d348643/orbotservice/src/main/java/org/torproject/android/service/OrbotService.java#L393
> 
> The IptProxy source code uses a patchset on the Go proxy code and it
> looks like they aren't changing the proxy type reported to the broker:
> 
> https://github.com/tladesignz/IPtProxy/blob/master/snowflake.patch
> 
> So my guess is these standalone proxies are from Orbot users, which
> would also explain why many of them also have restricted NATs as meskio
> pointed out :) I'll reach out them about it since I have a draft email
> about other IptProxy work in progress.
> 

Looking forward to it!

We do have the capability to be a Snowflake proxy available in Orbot as an experimental feature buried in settings, but are not promoting it actively.