[tor-bugs] #7153 [Pluggable transport]: Don't require pluggable transport proxies to be SOCKS proxies

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#7153: Don't require pluggable transport proxies to be SOCKS proxies
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 Reporter:  karsten              |          Owner:  asn
     Type:  project              |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:     
Component:  Pluggable transport  |        Version:     
 Keywords:  SponsorF20130228     |         Parent:     
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Comment(by arma):

 Replying to [comment:7 zwol]:
 > The "DEFIANCE" architecture that was presented at FOCI last summer
 contemplates packaging up pluggable-transport configurations as "network
 entry tickets" and delivering them to clients in a semi-automated manner.
 So there would be a controller process that would receive basically the
 above configuration blob from the network. In the current pluggable
 transport design, it would have to be parsed, repackaged as a bridge
 descriptor in Tor's dynamic configuration, and then repackaged again to
 hand off to the transport plugin.  Feeding it directly to the pluggable
 transport instead (as a file in the filesystem, presumably) saves two
 data-reformatting operations.  Furthermore, it means !StegoTorus only
 needs one configuration parser, and the "ACS dance" client needs none at
 all.

 See also
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/proposals/199
 -bridgefinder-integration.txt for Tor's view of how such a thing might
 work. It does seem like as our pluggable transports get fancier, the
 notion that the primary data needed by the pluggable transport receiver is
 "IPv4 address and port" is going to get farther from the truth.

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