On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 04:18:56PM +0300, George Kadianakis wrote:
> tor-admin <
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> > On Sunday 05 May 2013 14:50:51 George Kadianakis wrote:
> >> It would be interesting to learn which ports they currently whitelist,
> >> except from the usual HTTP/HTTPS.
> >>
> >> I also wonder if they just block based on TCP port, or whether they
> >> also have DPI heuristics.
> >>
> >> On the Tor side, it seems like we should start looking into #7875:
> >>
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7875
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> > I am wondering if here is there a way for a user to ask bridgedb for a bridge
> > with a specific port?
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> If I remember correctly BridgeDB tries (in a best-effort manner) to
> give users bridges that are listening on port 443. Obfuscated bridges
> that bind on 443 are not very common (because of #7875) so I guess
> that not many obfuscated bridges on 443 are given out.
>
> In any case, I don't think that a user can explicitly ask BridgeDB for
> a bridge on a specific port, but this might be a useful feature
> request (especially if this "filtering based on TCP port" tactic
> continues).
This may be a good feature to have, in general, but it does not sound like