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Re: [tor-bugs] #31391 [Circumvention/Snowflake]: Block censored countries from running snowflakes
#31391: Block censored countries from running snowflakes
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Reporter: cypherpunks | Owner: (none)
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Circumvention/Snowflake | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Actual Points:
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Reviewer: | Sponsor:
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Comment (by cohosh):
Replying to [comment:3 cypherpunks]:
> I was thinking about a "can it reach torproject.org? can it reach the
directory servers?" as a metric indicative of whether it's in a censored
region (which would even catch the cases when a snowflake is in a non-
censored country but a censored network), but even that approach has its
fair share of problems.
The snowflake proxy doesn't need to reach directory servers or
torproject.org to work. It needs to reach the snowflake bridge(s) it knows
about, and the snowflake broker though.
I like this idea. Changing the snowflake logic to test a connection to the
bridge before polling and to disable if it is unreachable would solve some
problems before they affect the client. And the snowflake of course won't
get any clients at all if it can't reach the broker. We could also add
some user-facing error message to let the operator know in the case
though.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31391#comment:4>
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