[tor-bugs] #32303 [Applications/Tor Browser]: obfs4proxy incompatibility on Android Q

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#32303: obfs4proxy incompatibility on Android Q
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 Reporter:  sysrqb                               |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  tbb-rbm, tbb-9.0-issues,             |  Actual Points:
  tbb-9.0.1-can, TorBrowserTeam201911R           |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:  1
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by eighthave):

 It would be great if Tor built all the binaries!  Here's the ideal as I
 see it:

 * Guardian, Briar, Thali, Tor all move towards common components
 (libtor.so, PTs, jtorctl, TorService, etc)
 * Tor Project makes official binaries for all the components used in TBB
 * TBB uses those binary components directly, via the local gradle/maven
 cache that's current in use
 * Tor Project also pushes those binary components to Maven Central for all
 other consumers to use
 * components not used by TBB will still be released by Guardian, etc.

 Between all the projects (Tor, Guardian, Briar, Thali, etc) have all the
 pieces of this implementing and working, we just need to rearrange things.
 This may seem like just shifting work to Tor Project, but if we do this
 right, I don't think it'll add more work for Tor Project, given the TBB
 requirements of building all binaries and building them reproducibly.
 Making TBB consume these components as binary releases will reduce the TBB
 flexibility a bit, but it will mean that all of the testing and
 integration work done by Guardian, Briar, Thali, etc. will directly apply
 to TBB.  I think it will pay off for TBB alone because of that, and it
 will also greatly simplify things for the rest.

 This can happen now for libtor.so and PT executables, as far as I see it.
 jtorctl will need work to integrate all the forks so the various projects
 can all use the same jtorctl.  Then TorService will be easy to share once
 there is a canonical jtorctl.

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