[tor-dev] Future pluggable/lib obfus transport?

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Thu Feb 20 02:51:37 UTC 2014


> The short answer is that obfsproxy is indeed not designed to
> facilitate PTs like DNS transports. It will probably require a
> considerable refactor of obfsproxy to write a DNS pluggable
> transport. It will probably require so much refactoring that I'm not
> sure if it would make sense to merge the changes back upstream
> (because the changes might not be useful for other PTs).

Re the above from George, and some talk I see about
obfs versions, am I right that obfsproxy is not yet a general
pluggable transport tool? As in a library and/or standalone
proxy that two endpoints put in front of themselves,
choose from a menu of (or negotiate) obfus and say
go in a nearly automatic fashion?
A C/python library interface would be interesting, as
would deciding what the standalone proxy might be
among socks5, transparent firewall redirection, tun
interface, etc.
In addition to DNS, people have written HTTP, IRC,
ICMP, raw IP, etc tunneling tools in the past.


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