[tor-relays] A call to arms for obfuscated bridges

[Martin Weinelt]

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On 16.04.2013 22:37, Moritz Bartl wrote:
> On 16.04.2013 22:27, Roman Mamedov wrote:
>>> Also, obfsproxy was rewritten in Python and it now supports a
>>> new pluggable transport called 'obfs3' which works even in
>>> China [2].
>> I wish this sort of functionality was integrated directly into
>> tor. I am not up for installing and configuring an extra piece of
>> Python software on my bridges, and it doesn't help that it isn't
>> even present in Debian (only version 0.1.4 is there, which I
>> guess is not obfs "3" that you now promote).
> 
> If you have deb.torproject.org as apt repository source, which is
> also the recommended way to get and keep Tor up to date, you can
> simply apt-get it.
> 
> Don't confuse the version number of Obfsproxy with supported
> transport protocols. Obfsproxy is a software that currently
> supports the "obfs2" and "obfs3" protocols, and is at version
> 0.2.1-2. It is likely that in the future support for more protocols
> will be added.
> 

Does it make sense to launch an Obfsproxy on a IP already running a
relay node? If yes, can I run it in the same tor session? What options
do I need to activate?

I added the SoftwareTransportPlugins to my configuration and upon
rehashing it showed it listened to two more ports:
22:43:39 [NOTICE] Registered server transport 'obfs2' at '0.0.0.0:47533'
22:43:39 [NOTICE] Registered server transport 'obfs3' at '0.0.0.0:42580'

I however did not yet add "BridgeRelay 1" because I don't know how
that affects relay functionality.

Where do I go from here?


Martin Weinelt
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