[tor-bugs] #7137 [Censorship analysis]: Build a tool that a censored person can run to discover why their Tor is failing to connect

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#7137: Build a tool that a censored person can run to discover why their Tor is
failing to connect
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 Reporter:  karsten              |          Owner:  runa
     Type:  project              |         Status:  new 
 Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:      
Component:  Censorship analysis  |        Version:      
 Keywords:  SponsorZ             |         Parent:      
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 We should develop an automated censorship diagnostics toolkit for Tor.  It
 gets deployed when someone says something like "tor doesn't work in my
 country anymore".  The goal is to have them download this toolkit, which
 will automatically figure out if tor is blocked, how it might be blocked,
 and if any of the known ways to bypass tor censorship works, and if so,
 tell the client "you need X."  Where X is bridges, private bridges,
 obfsproxy, private obfsproxy.  If nothing works, it collects lots of data,
 and sends it back to tor.

 Tor then analyzes the data and learns a new way of blocking tor as
 feedback into our anti-censorship work.  Maybe there is a quick solution
 for the user in blocked country, maybe there isn't.

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