Please help us test new bundles that have flash proxy and pyobfsproxy enabled by default.
Flash proxy (https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/) is a transport that uses proxies running in web browsers as access points into the Tor network. pyobfsproxy is a Python implementation of the obfsproxy modular transport (https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy, https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/asn/pyobfsproxy.git) that makes network traffic look unlike normal Tor traffic. Both of these technologies make it harder to block access to Tor. Flash proxy works differently than other pluggable transports, and you need to take extra steps to make it work. In particular, *you will probably need to configure port forwarding*, by default port 9000, in order to receive connections from browser proxies. There are instructions and hints on how to do that at this page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/FlashProxyHowto pyobfsproxy doesn't require any special setup. These bundles contain fresh obfs2 bridge addresses, which may work for you even if obfsproxy was blocked for you previously. The bundle also includes an experimental obfs3 bridge--obfs3 is a new protocol designed to be harder to identify than the previous obfs2. If your bridges become blocked, the solution is not to download a new bundle but to find new bridges: https://bridges.torproject.org/?transport=obfs2 Windows 64-bit https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/flashproxy/tor-flashproxy-pyobfsproxy-browser-2.4.7-alpha-1-x86_64_en-US.exe https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/flashproxy/tor-flashproxy-pyobfsproxy-browser-2.4.7-alpha-1-x86_64_en-US.exe.asc OS X 64-bit https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/flashproxy/TorBrowser-FlashProxy-PyObfsproxy-2.4.7-alpha-1-osx-x86_64-en-US.zip https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/flashproxy/TorBrowser-FlashProxy-PyObfsproxy-2.4.7-alpha-1-osx-x86_64-en-US.zip.asc GNU/Linux 32-bit https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/flashproxy/tor-flashproxy-pyobfsproxy-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.4.7-alpha-1-dev-en-US.tar.gz https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/flashproxy/tor-flashproxy-pyobfsproxy-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.4.7-alpha-1-dev-en-US.tar.gz.asc GNU/Linux 64-bit https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/flashproxy/tor-flashproxy-pyobfsproxy-browser-gnu-linux-x86_64-2.4.7-alpha-1-dev-en-US.tar.gz https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/flashproxy/tor-flashproxy-pyobfsproxy-browser-gnu-linux-x86_64-2.4.7-alpha-1-dev-en-US.tar.gz.asc We are looking for feedback on how well the bundles work. Please leave comments on this wiki page or ticket, or as replies to this message: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/FlashProxyUsability https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7824 Alexandre Allaire, George Kadianakis, and I worked together to build these bundles. David Fifield _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
