Re: [tor-dev] Flash proxy deployment

2012-07-13 Thread David Fifield
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:09:51PM +0200, Philipp Winter wrote: > - Web site visitors need to get the script as well as the bridges to scan from > somewhere. This "somewhere" can be blocked. In order to avoid that, the > script > could be hosted on a large provider which the censor is unwillin

Re: [tor-dev] Flash proxy deployment

2012-07-13 Thread Philipp Winter
Perhaps, the flash proxy concept could also be used for bridge reachability scanning [1]. Web sites could embed JavaScript code which tries to establish a connection to a provided bridge. The result (reachable or not) is then sent back. When users from different censoring countries visit one of th

Re: [tor-dev] Flash proxy deployment

2012-07-07 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 04:31:53PM -0700, David Fifield wrote: > During the development meeting today, the group interested in pluggable > transports decided to begin to deploy the flash proxy transport in the > near future. As a reminder, flash proxies use a small JavaScript/WebSocket > program to

[tor-dev] Flash proxy deployment

2012-07-03 Thread David Fifield
During the development meeting today, the group interested in pluggable transports decided to begin to deploy the flash proxy transport in the near future. As a reminder, flash proxies use a small JavaScript/WebSocket program to run proxies in a web browser and provide a hard-to-block pool of IP ad