Hi :), I can't give you an answer to your history questions, since I wasn't involved in the history of PTs but I have the feeling you have this fundamental question "Why we should work on an other PT, as long as the stuff which we already have works fine?" (?)
Simple answer: You should always have an active role (beeing faster like the other party in development) and not a passive role (waiting until your stuff doesn't work anymore before you work on something new) in the fight against censorship. Best regards, Carolin Am Samstag, den 27.10.2018, 17:20 +0530 schrieb Piyush Kumar Sharma: > Hello all, > I have a few specific questions related to the pluggable transports. > > 1.) I believe that obfs4 stops active probing(the latest problem as > brought to notice by Ensafi et al, IMC 2015 and Shinying Cho, FOCI > 2018), and hence discovering obfs4 Tor bridges using active probing > is not possible. Is that true? If so, then we are good to go and > hence we don't need any other pluggable transport to work for us as > long as obfs4 is working? > > 2.) What was the motivation to bring in meek as a pluggable > transport, given the fact that obfs4 works great to cover all the > existing problems with Tor detection. Was the motivation just the > fact that, it will be much easier for the users to use meek than > obfs4 or something other than this? > > 3.) I searched a lot but could not find the timeline in which > pluggable transports were built. As in what was developed and > deployed first, obfs4 or meek? > > Regards > > Piyush > IIITD > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev