[tor-qa] 2.4.17-beta-2-obfs-flash1 (obfuscated flash proxy) bundles

[Sherief Alaa]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:46 AM, David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com>wrote:

> Hello testers,
>
> I have here a first test release of new "obfs-flash" bundles. What's
> different about these is that when you use flash proxy in these bundles,
> the payloads of the WebSocket messages will be obfuscated with obfs3
> (you will see it called "obfs3_flashproxy" in torrc). It's part of a big
> project we've had to combine different transports together, one you can
> read about in ticket #7167.
>
> https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/pt-bundle/2.4.17-beta-2-obfs-flash1/
>
> There is a known problem with this set of bundles on Windows. On
> Windows, some transport processes (obfsproxy.exe and
> flashproxy-client.exe) will continue running after you exit Tor and
> Vidalia. You have to open the Task Manager and kill those processes
> before running the bundle again. Read more about it here and in
> following comments:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10006#comment:5
> This problem was unexpected and will take some time to fix, but we are
> working on it. If you are testing on Windows, remember to kill any
> remaining obfsproxy.exe and flashproxy-client.exe processes after
> exiting the bundle. GNU/Linux and Mac OS X should work fine.
>
>
For me, only obfsproxy.exe stays open. Everything else seems to be fine.


> Because of the problem in the previous paragraph, this build isn't going
> to be released except to testers. But since GNU/Linux and Mac OS X
> should work, we are interested in getting some early feedback.
>
> The bundles are configured to start obfs2, obfs3, and obfs3_flashproxy
> transports. obfs2 and obfs3 are the same as in previous releases and
> don't need any special testing. If you want to test obfs3_flashproxy
> specifically, you should comment out all the
>         Bridge obfs2
>         Bridge obfs3
> lines, and leave the one line
>         Bridge obfs3_flashproxy
>
>
I did that and I also disabled the windows built in firewall but I am stuck
at "Bootstrapped 10%: Finishing handshake with directory server."

Do I need to forward specific ports in my router?


-- 
Sherief Alaa
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