Here's a perspective on the project and its current challenges from
Jacob Appelbaum and Roger Dingledine's Tor ecosystem talk at 29C3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnbc_9JnVtc&feature=youtu.be&t=1h8s
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On 1/3/13 7:25 PM, Steve Weis wrote:
I noticed a Stanford project for setting up browser-based, ephemeral
Tor proxies. In their words, "the purpose of this project is to create
many, generally ephemeral bridge IP addresses, with the goal of
outpacing a censor's ability to block them."
The core idea is that volunteers outside a filtered region can embed
an "Internet Freedom" badge on their web pages. Visitors browsing from
outside a filtered region can become short-lived proxies that relay
traffic to and from the filtered region. When visitors navigate away
from a volunteer page, the proxy disappears.
https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/
https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/flashproxy.pdf
Note that "flash" is not a reference to Adobe Flash. It's based on
Websockets and Javascript.
Also, I am not endorsing this technology for real-world use yet nor
can attest to its security. I haven't looked at it in enough detail yet.
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