[tor-bugs] #3466 [Tor Bridge]: Project: Tor build variant to run lightweight socks bridge

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#3466: Project: Tor build variant to run lightweight socks bridge
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 Reporter:  arma        |          Owner:                   
     Type:  task        |         Status:  new              
 Priority:  normal      |      Milestone:  Tor: post 0.2.3.x
Component:  Tor Bridge  |        Version:                   
 Keywords:              |         Parent:                   
   Points:              |   Actualpoints:                   
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 Many people lately have been trying to run bridges on tiny devices.

 #2764 and #3292 are about the security tradeoffs there, but while we're
 waiting for insight, I think we should get closer to being able to build
 these things.

 One of Dan's Stanford students basically set up a python socks proxy that
 pulled down the Tor consensus and forwarded your traffic into one of the
 Tor relays. Great. Except he doesn't parse the consensus very much,
 doesn't check its signatures, etc.

 Rather than writing a separate tool that does that, we should make a way
 to build a Tor binary such that you get to reuse the consensus parsing and
 signature checking, so it will pull down the consensus for you and check
 it, but the rest of Tor is left out.

 (Unless we can think of an even better way to do it, that is.)

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