[tor-bugs] #25594 [Obfuscation/Snowflake]: Broker: investigate non-domain-fronting secure client / proxy registrations

Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki blackhole at torproject.org
Thu Mar 22 17:54:25 UTC 2018


#25594: Broker: investigate non-domain-fronting secure client / proxy registrations
---------------------------------------+--------------------
     Reporter:  arlolra                |      Owner:  (none)
         Type:  defect                 |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                 |  Milestone:
    Component:  Obfuscation/Snowflake  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                 |   Keywords:
Actual Points:                         |  Parent ID:
       Points:                         |   Reviewer:
      Sponsor:                         |
---------------------------------------+--------------------
 > Pasting discussion from email,
 >
 >> in the Flashproxy case, registration wasn't
 >> bidi, and I think they imagined using insecure
 >> channels to register like OSSes. In Snowflake,
 >> the client is making TLS connections with the
 >> broker, which amounts to the same thing as
 >> encrypting the payload with the facilitator's
 >> public key.
 >
 > Also,
 >
 >> There's also the case where an adversary DOSes the facilitator with a
 >> bunch of fake client or proxy registrations and things like that.
 >
 > This is now #25593
 >
 >> Also, there is the potential that in the future we might need some
 >> sort of non-domain-fronting rendezvous. It seems that right now we
 >> have an ecosystem of tools growing that assumes domain-fronting will
 >> always be available & effective. May be worth considering how to
 >> prepare for regions where this might not work as well in the future.
 >
 > So this ticket should probably be for that.

 \\ Migrated from https://github.com/keroserene/snowflake/issues/13

--
Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25594>
Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/>
The Tor Project: anonymity online


More information about the tor-bugs mailing list