[tor-bugs] #5550 [Obfsproxy]: Discuss feasibility of a Python obfsproxy

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#5550: Discuss feasibility of a Python obfsproxy
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 Reporter:  karsten    |          Owner:          
     Type:  task       |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal     |      Milestone:          
Component:  Obfsproxy  |        Version:          
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Changes (by asn):

 * cc: hellais (added)


Comment:

 After discussing this issue in the dev meeting, we decided that the
 performance questions can be answered by creating a dummy pluggable
 transport proxy and doing stress tests on it.

 This means that the current unanswered problem, is deployment in Windows.
 My understanding is that Nick is afraid that solutions like py2exe result
 in 30MB .exe files.

 I think we should find out what is our threshold for the size of a python
 binary (is 5MB okay?), and how big would a "pyobfsproxy" windows binary
 actually be in practice.

 This is a related thread in tor-dev by Arturo:
 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2012-March/003328.html

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