[tor-bugs] #31154 [Circumvention/Snowflake]: Ideas for hosting Tor Snowflake bridges with changing residential IP addresses?

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Tue Jul 16 13:40:20 UTC 2019


#31154: Ideas for hosting Tor Snowflake bridges with changing residential IP
addresses?
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 Reporter:  subscriptionblocker      |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement              |         Status:  needs_information
 Priority:  Medium                   |      Milestone:
Component:  Circumvention/Snowflake  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                   |     Resolution:
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Changes (by cohosh):

 * status:  new => needs_information


Comment:

 I don't completely understand the details of this ticket, but it seems to
 be concerning the fact that we only have a single snowflake bridge, the
 domain of this bridge is hard-coded into snowflake proxies, and that the
 bridge has a fixed IP address that doesn't change?

 There's a possibly related ticket to running more than one snowflake
 bridge: #28651

 With respect to bridge(s) that have static, fixed IP addresses, can you
 state more clearly what kind of problem you are trying to solve? For
 example, from a censorship perspective, blocking the bridge IP address
 shouldn't cause problems for snowflake since clients connect through the
 bridge to proxies. If we're worried about a takedown request of the bridge
 by the jurisdiction in which it is located, I'm not sure how a rotating IP
 will solve that problem without also changing its jurisdiction (which
 might be helped by running more than one bridge)?

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