[tor-relays] Heartfelt gratitude from censored region

For those who may skip emails by the subject line, I resend my own email. There is a sinking feel in general over here, where a bunch of us learn more about Tor.  We learnt we cannot run our own relays because here censorship is very strong; at the same time, we realize we have many relay operat

Re: [tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 87, Issue 4

We had some more discussions over here, and someone pointed out a key fact which we novices did not get at first - the Tor network does not REALLY trust the relay operators until the directory authorities DAs (whose IPs are hardcoded into the source code) can check them out and then vote about w

Re: [tor-relays] Estimation of bridge traffic / Bridge or relay needed?

Want to follow up the discussion on encouraging people to run relays. The powers that be where I live now heavily frowns upon VPN and Tor.  And a fair number in our community is sensing further tightening in the air. Today we had a discussion, we had a lot of questions.  I try to summarize below

Re: [tor-relays] failed setup of obfs4 on relay

Thank you all, that was very helpful. - Jack 30. Mar 2018 20:53 by a...@mit.edu : > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 04:52:23PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: >> For obfs4, the active prober doesn't know the secret "cert" parameter, > > For far far more detail on the various pluggabl

Re: [tor-relays] failed setup of obfs4 on relay

Alright, problem solved although I don't understand why.  Hope someone can educate me: What I did. (1) Turned on Log debug stderr in torrc, and I could see obfs4 loading correctly. (2) Then I realized obfs4 writes to a file to help people construct the bridgeline for tow browser in pt_state/obf

[tor-relays] failed setup of obfs4 on relay

Am a novice compiling Tor (0.3.2.9) and been successful using this from a Tor Browser as a private bridge by entering "a.b.c.d:9001" into Tor Browser.  However, pointing my Tor Browser to the obfs4 on the same machine fails with something like General SOCKS failure in the log.  Below is my torrc