Griffin Boyce transcribed 1.6K bytes: > Lunar wrote: > > We can't just make Tor Browser stop accepting obfs2 because some > > people are using obfs2 bridges right now. But we shouldn't add more > > people to the set of users of a broken protocol. > > We should really be reaching out to those running obfs2 nodes and > convincing them to move to obfs3 if at all possible. > > Related question: are there geographic areas where standard bridges > are being blocked, where obfs2 are still usable? Yes, some university/corporate networks. > If so, maybe in the future it would be possible to restrict distribution of > remaining obfs2 bridges to those areas. Unfortunately, this is rather hard to detect in automated fashion, and I would have no interest in building nor maintaining such a list. > But on the whole I agree that giving those out is problematic. Unless they > comprise a large portion of bridges, maybe it's time to phase them out of > bridgeDB (not necessarily TBB). Well, you're correct that obfs2 isn't the majority anymore (finally!), but there still is a rather huge chunk of bridges which are obfs2: bridgedb@ponticum:/srv/bridges.torproject.org$ grep 'transport obfs2' from-authority/cached-extrainfo* | wc -l 2071 bridgedb@ponticum:/srv/bridges.torproject.org$ grep 'transport obfs3' from-authority/cached-extrainfo* | wc -l 2840 bridgedb@ponticum:/srv/bridges.torproject.org$ grep 'transport scramblesuit' from-authority/cached-extrainfo* | wc -l 2221 bridgedb@ponticum:/srv/bridges.torproject.org$ grep 'transport fte' from-authority/cached-extrainfo* | wc -l 625 > > best, > Griffin > > -- > Wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit. > -Bill Hicks > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev -- ââ isis agora lovecruft _________________________________________________________ GPG: 4096R/A3ADB67A2CDB8B35 Current Keys: https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt
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