[tor-bugs] #8523 [Tor]: Should Tor ignore unknown pluggable transports?

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Tue Mar 19 15:46:34 UTC 2013


#8523: Should Tor ignore unknown pluggable transports?
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 Reporter:  runa    |          Owner:     
     Type:  task    |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal  |      Milestone:     
Component:  Tor     |        Version:     
 Keywords:          |         Parent:     
   Points:          |   Actualpoints:     
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 asn, aagbsn, and runa discussed the new design for bridges.tpo and tried
 to come up with something easy and user friendly. Users should not have to
 know which TBB they have, what the real name of the transports are, or
 which transports they can use with their version of TBB.

 runa suggested that bridges.tpo can give out a bridge or two of each type,
 users enter all bridges into Vidalia/TBB, and Tor silently ignores the
 ones it does not recognize.

 At the moment, Tor will throw a warning if you enter a bridge that it does
 not recognize, such as obfs4, and will then fail to build new circuits. Is
 it possible to have Tor ignore unknown pluggable transports? Is doing so a
 good idea?

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