[tor-bugs] #7167 [Pluggable transport]: Combine traffic obfuscation with address diversity of flash proxy

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#7167: Combine traffic obfuscation with address diversity of flash proxy
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     Reporter:  karsten          |      Owner:  asn
         Type:  project          |     Status:  needs_revision
     Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:
    Component:  Pluggable        |    Version:
  transport                      |   Keywords:  SponsorF20131101 flashproxy
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Comment (by dcf):

 Replying to [comment:34 infinity0]:
 > I've added a basic CLI, and also the nifty feature of auto-selecting the
 local listen port for flashproxy so the user doesn't have to specify it.
 Available on my github repo.

 Thanks, I merged it.

 > At the moment, one still needs to manually pick a port for the 'Bridge
 obfs3_flash' line in torrc, which *in theory* should not be necessary
 since it's a local port that's only used locally, but I don't know of a
 practical way around this. (I don't know Tor well enough.)

 I think the way to do this is to put an extra SOCKS listener in front of
 obfsproxy, that eats Tor's SOCKS request and rewrites it into one pointing
 at the local SOCKS shim that points to flashproxy-client. But leaving in a
 hardcoded port number seems fine for now.

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