[tor-bugs] #5548 [Tor Bridge]: Write a proposal for password-protected bridges

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#5548: Write a proposal for password-protected bridges
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 Reporter:  karsten     |          Owner:  nickm                  
     Type:  project     |         Status:  new                    
 Priority:  normal      |      Milestone:  Sponsor F: July 1, 2012
Component:  Tor Bridge  |        Version:                         
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 Item 18 from [wiki:org/sponsors/SponsorF/Year2] is: "write a proposal for
 at what level of abstraction the "Tor does an SSL handshake with a real
 apache, posts a password over http to the server, and then gets passed to
 the real Tor relay" design should take place. Should the Tor client simply
 talk to a local proxy which does this dance, a la pluggable transports?
 Should Tor use a libevent2 filter? Something else?"

 Nick and I talked about this deliverable last December.  Nick thought that
 writing a proposal is doable.  He didn't have a specific design in mind,
 but he didn't see any obstacles to writing one.  He said we should
 definitely be working on this stuff earlier, not later.  I said I'd assign
 the project ticket to Nick and to the July milestone, which I'm doing now.

 I'm also cc'ing asn and ioerror who both expressed interest in working on
 this deliverable.

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