[tor-bugs] #5012 [Pluggable transport]: Write proposals to allow an external program that discovers bridge addresses to tell Tor about them and start implementing the proposals

Sat Mar 17 00:44:09 UTC 2012

#5012: Write proposals to allow an external program that discovers bridge
addresses to tell Tor about them and start implementing the proposals
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 Reporter:  karsten              |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  task                 |         Status:  assigned 
 Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:           
Component:  Pluggable transport  |        Version:           
 Keywords:  MikePerry201203      |         Parent:  #5010    
   Points:                       |   Actualpoints:           
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Comment(by mikeperry):

 Replying to [comment:5 mikeperry]:
 > asn said he said nickm was concerned about non-controllers having
 control port access.
 >
 > nickm: Is that true? If so, should we write a third proposal that
 describes a low-privilege control port mode? Perhaps one that can only use
 POSTMESSAGE?

 The underlying assumption here being that low-priv controllers would
 POSTMESSAGE to Vidalia, who would then decide to approve or deny their
 requests, perhaps after asking for user input.

 For those of you just joining this ticket and who have no idea what is
 going on, see
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5011#comment:10

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