On 2012-02-29, MacLemon <t...@maclemon.at> wrote: > I was wondering if building tor with obfsproxy would make any sense for a > relay. The documentation suggests that obfsproxy is rather exclusive for > bridges yet isn’t absolutely clear about that. > > The only scenario I can fabricate is someone blocking tor by DPI, being > confident that they can block any tor traffic and subsequently doesn’t > bother to explicitly block relay IPs anymore. Doesn’t seem too realistic to > me. > > Would it hurt to implement obfsproxy into a relay?
We don't know. We were worried that https://bugs.torproject.org/1776 would crash clients who use an obfsproxy with a relay behind it, but I've had a Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha-dev client running for over a day configured to use a relay as a bridge, and so far I haven't seen a crash. I'll be willing to declare that clients which use microdescriptors aren't susceptible to #1776 after a week or two (to ensure that moria1 has changed its onion key, and this issued a new microdescriptor). That won't help clients that are configured to also use a bridge running 0.2.2.x, but hopefully no one who uses obfsproxy will try to also use a regular bridge. I should start another Tor client with microdescriptors disabled, too. Maybe that will help us find (and fix) #1776, if it's still around in 0.2.3.x. Robert Ransom _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
