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Re: [tor-bugs] #5028 [Ooni]: Tor bridge scanning
#5028: Tor bridge scanning
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Reporter: hellais | Owner: runa
Type: project | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: Sponsor F: March 15, 2012
Component: Ooni | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
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Comment(by karsten):
Replying to [comment:40 ioerror]:
> It seems like such an automated scan should contain special cases for
countries with network censorship systems that are as advanced as China.
Sure. In the long run we could do full Tor handshakes for most countries
and just the TCP scan for China. But we'll have to start somewhere, and
the TCP scan seems to be the safest approach.
> > > Obfu bridges are generally reachable, tls bridges are generally
blocked either before we test or by confirmation with a follow up probe.
Has that changed?
> >
> > I wouldn't know.
>
> This is a test that seems extremely relevant and if we're going to do
scans from China, I bet it's one of the safest and most useful.
If we only scan obfsproxy bridges, we'll only learn if those are
reachable. But we want to have a mechanism for telling if normal bridges
are reachable as well. Excluding obfsproxy bridges for the moment.
> > > Are we doing a scan of the obfu bridges? Or just the normal
HTTPS/TLS bridges?
> >
> > We're scanning normal HTTPS/TLS bridges, no obfsproxy bridges.
>
> Ok. Are we scanning from all buckets or just a single bucket?
The plan was to scan all HTTPS bridges, but I guess we can reduce that to
2 out of 5 rings. 125 bridges in total.
> The ground truth for China is different from other countries these days.
Any automated tool to do this kind of scanning should not have an
assumption that IP or TCP connect scans and a full handshake with data
will produce the same results.
Right, that's an assumption that needs to be made explicit. Want to help
write the report, so that these things come over correctly?
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5028#comment:41>
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