[tor-relays] Bridge Authority closure

Alex Chang-Lam ael9292 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 15:23:42 UTC 2016


I believe also being highly known and trusted by the Tor project leads, likely the current dirauths, and the community as a whole.

On Jul 21, 2016, at 6:03 AM, Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> What are the requirements, apart from long-term stability, for this? 
> 
> On 21 Jul 2016 12:18 pm, "Sebastian Hahn" <sebastian at torproject.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > On 21 Jul 2016, at 05:20, Me <info at gumbyzee.torzone.net> wrote:
>> > So what are we going to do when Green shuts down the Bridge Authority server next month? Will it have a serious effect, or will there be any apparent issues or slowdowns?
>> 
>> We'll have to act before that. We're currently looking for
>> a new operator for the bridge authority and a suitable hosting
>> location, which we will want to include in Tor releases asap.
>> For a while we will feed the data from the two concurrently
>> running bridge authorities to the bridge database for
>> distribution to users, then when Tonga (Lucky's auth) is shut
>> down the new one will have taken over. We will lose the data
>> about all bridges that aren't updated after the time Tonga is
>> shut off. This means fewer bridges for bridge db to give out and
>> potentially a drop in counted (not necessarily actual) bridge
>> users of Tor.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Sebastian
>> 
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