On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:27:59 -0500 grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote: > Bridges are not intended for use by the general population, but by > people who truly need them and/or cannot reach Tor any other way.
Generally, I use bridges to avoid telling the local network I'm connecting to the Tor Network. If I forget to get some bridges in advance, I'll just connect to faceless.me or ipredator and then fire up Tor. Rarely, I'll just connect to an open SOCKS5/HTTPS proxy and tunnel Tor through that. Most of my problem with bridges is that they are unreliable. I seem to find the ones that have connectivity problems. I either end up with a list of 40 bridges, or I just get new ones before a trip. I know Karsten wrote a paper about bridge stability and giving out at least one stable bridge per set given, https://metrics.torproject.org/papers/bridge-stability-2011-10-31.pdf. There is hope that in the future, at least one of my chosen bridges is stable. -- Andrew pgp 0x74ED336B _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
