[tor-bugs] #4927 [Tor bundles/installation]: Prepare a Pluggable Transports Bundle

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#4927: Prepare a Pluggable Transports Bundle
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 Reporter:  asn                       |          Owner:  erinn
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:       
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:       
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 This ticket is about preparing a Pluggable Transports Tor Bundle (PTTB,
 for now)that end users can download and run effortlessly.

 Some thoughts on how the PTTB should look like:

 == Bridge-side ==
 I imagine that a bridge-side PTTB will need a tor version that supports
 managed proxies, and contains the fix for #4725 and #4865.

 I suppose that PTTB will contain an obfsproxy binary in its root
 directory, and then inside the premade torrc there will be a line that
 references and launches it with obfs2, like this:

 {{{
 ServerTransportPlugin obfs2 exec ../../obfsproxy --managed
 }}}
 Ideally then, Vidalia will pick up the log line (or even better we should
 export this information using the control protocol) that says in which
 port obfsproxy is listening, and display it to the bridge operator so that
 he can give it to his/her users. The log line currently looks like this:

 {{{
  Registered server transport 'obfs2' at '0.0.0.0:42666'
 }}}
 == Client-side ==
 A client-side PTTB simply needs a tor version that supports managed
 proxies (over 0.2.3.10).

 obfsproxy will again be placed in the root directory of PTTB (or somewhere
 around there), and the premade torrc should reference it with a
 ClientTransportPlugin line, like this:

 {{{
 ClientTransportPlugin obfs2 exec ../../obfsproxy --managed
 }}}
 Then, Vidalia should have some sort of graphical way of adding obfs2'ed
 bridges that end-users will do. Such bridge lines in torrc usually look
 like this:

 {{{
 Bridge obfs2 192.0.2.1:42666
 }}}
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 BTW, I don't really know how TBB works internally, so my thoughts above
 might not be realistic.

 ===== I haven't opened any tickets about the things that must be
 implemented in Vidalia. I should do this. =====

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