[tor-project] Arranging new default obfs4 bridges

David Fifield david at bamsoftware.com
Thu Mar 9 11:33:44 UTC 2017


On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:27:33PM +1100, teor wrote:
> > On 9 Mar 2017, at 22:24, David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com> wrote:
> > 
> > In November 2016 there was a discussion on the tor-team list about
> > adding some new default obfs4 bridges (Subject: Coordinating to run high
> > capacity obfs4 bridges). The thread turned into a discussion about the
> > same entity running both bridges and exits, and didn't go anywhere.
> > 
> > We haven't added any new obfs4 bridges, or changed the port number of
> > any existing bridges, since January 2017 (Tor Browser 6.5 and 7.0a1). I
> > suspect that the 20 existing default bridges are still under high load
> > and we could stand to have some more bridges to help share it. Are we
> > still interested in adding new obfs4 bridges? If so, do we have any
> > leads on who could run them?
> 
> Team Cymru and Mozilla recently asked how they could help out.

If you know who is was at those organizations, can you have them contact
me or tbb-dev at lists.torproject.org? We can get them the information they
need to get bridges running and get them integrated into the browser.


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