Re: [tor-dev] Tor Bridges and Snowflakes detection attack

2023-01-09 Thread Cecylia Bocovich
On 1/9/23 09:11, Christian Pietsch wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 01:31:52PM +, EfraimVagner via tor-dev wrote: Anyone knows how he did it? Seems kind of wierd he says he is against oppressive regiments but doesn't give any useful information about what the issue is. The Snowflake proxie

[tor-dev] Introducing a Conjure PT for Tor

2022-08-31 Thread Cecylia Bocovich
Conjure[0] is an anti-censorship tool in the refraction networking (a.k.a. decoy routing) lineage of circumvention systems. The key innovation of Conjure is to turn the unused IP address space of deploying ISPs into a large pool of "phantom" proxies that users appear to connect to. Due to the s

[tor-dev] A proposal to phase out CAPTCHAs for BridgeDB

2021-07-29 Thread Cecylia Bocovich
Hi everyone, We've been working on improving the usability of BridgeDB lately, and our CAPTCHAs have been a constant thorny problem. They are not accessible for blind users [0]. We've gotten many complaints over the years that they are hard to use [1], I'm sure Gus and the community team members c

Re: [tor-dev] Snowflake server and traffic analysis questions

2020-01-15 Thread Cecylia Bocovich
> Goal: We (Whonix) are researching optional bridge hosting for our users > to thwart web fingerprinting. Snowflake makes the most sense since no > NAT hole-punching is needed. Correct me if I'm wrong here because if > that was possible with obfs4 or meek it would save a lot of work. > > We now kno

[tor-dev] Anti-censorship discussion with Briar devs

2019-02-22 Thread Cecylia Bocovich
Hi, I just had a really great conversation with some of the developers at Briar about the recent work they've done in integrating some pluggable transports into their messaging application. I thought I would summarize some key points from the conversation here. In particular, this information migh