Package: tor Version: 0.3.2.0-alpha-dev-20170814T130811Z-1~d90.stretch+1 Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer, A set of Tor bridges are shipped with Tor browser bundle[0], helping users in Tor-censored area to connection to the Tor network. Since Debian system Tor users may also face the censorship problem, shall we ship some Tor bridges along with the tor package? Please forgive my ignorance if this is the wrong place to do such a feature request. I noticed that obfs4proxy and obfsproxy were `suggests` of the tor package, which means tor package users do not necessarily have obfs4proxy and obfsproxy installed. However, if this is the right place to request the feature, the following is some related information which may help the future discussion: The possible formats to hold those bridges can be: 1. JSON which is also the way tor-connection-wizard used so far[1]; 2. plain text which is the same formatt given by the BridgeDB[2] by Tor Project; 3. "Bridge" + plain text which is ready to be appended to a torrc file or to be one of the torrc files in /etc/torrc.d/ (or whatever torrc.d path Debain decides to use) The default bridge shipped with tor package should be exactly the same bridges contained in bridge_prefs.js[0] shipped with the latest stable TBB. This is because: 1. The servers hosting default bridges are set up for huge amount of traffic; 2. The servers hosting default bridges are probably audited by TPO for better security; 3. Using a different set of bridges will distinguish the anon-connection-wizard bridge users from the TBB bridge users, which compromises their anonymity. Thank you very much! And looking forward to a further discussion. Best, iry [0]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/tree/Bundle-Data/PTConfigs/bridge_prefs.js?h=7.5a3-linux [1]: https://github.com/irykoon/anon-connection-wizard/blob/master/usr/share/anon-connection-wizard/bridges_default [2]: https://bridges.torproject.org/options -- System Information: Distributor ID: Whonix Description: Whonix GNU/Linux 9.1 (stretch) Release: 9.1 Codename: stretch Architecture: x86_64 Versions of packages tor depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.21-stable-3 ii libseccomp2 2.3.1-2.1 ii libssl1.1 1.1.0f-3 ii libsystemd0 232-25+deb9u1 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages tor recommends: ii logrotate 3.11.0-0.1 ii tor-geoipdb 0.3.2.0-alpha-dev-20170814T130811Z-1~d90.stretch+1 ii torsocks 2.2.0-1 Versions of packages tor suggests: ii apparmor-utils 2.11.0-3 pn mixmaster <none> ii obfs4proxy 0.0.7-1+b2 ii obfsproxy 0.2.13-2 ii socat 1.7.3.1-2+deb9u1 ii tor-arm 1.4.5.0-1.1 pn torbrowser-launcher <none> -- no debconf information
