[tor-bugs] #5040 [Obfsproxy]: Make public bridges add obfsproxy stats to their extra-info descriptors

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#5040: Make public bridges add obfsproxy stats to their extra-info descriptors
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 Reporter:  karsten      |          Owner:  asn
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:     
Component:  Obfsproxy    |        Version:     
 Keywords:               |         Parent:     
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:     
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 Roger is planning to install obfsproxy on moria, probably pointing to a
 separate Tor process being a private bridge, and publish its address to
 get some testers for obfsproxy.

 We discussed adding obfsproxy stats to Tor, so that we can keep track of
 obfsproxy usage over time.  However, this requires the extended OR port to
 be implemented, or Tor wouldn't know much about clients connecting to
 obfsproxy.

 The new obfsproxy stats code would go into Tor 0.2.4.x anyway, but setting
 up an external proxy is already possible with 0.2.2.x.  So, we wouldn't
 get all statistics anyway.

 We could make obfsproxy write some stats to disk and ask people we know to
 give us those files, but that's probably not worth the effort.

 We should discuss adding obfsproxy statistics to 0.2.4.x together with the
 extended OR port.  Once we have that we should distribute images with
 public bridges running 0.2.4.x, with obfsproxy, and with obfsproxy stats.

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