[tor-bugs] #33299 [Circumvention/BridgeDB]: Remove retired pluggable transports
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#33299: Remove retired pluggable transports
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Reporter: phw | Owner: phw
Type: task | Status: assigned
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Circumvention/BridgeDB | Version:
Severity: Normal | Keywords: s30-o22a2
Actual Points: | Parent ID: #31279
Points: 0.5 | Reviewer:
Sponsor: Sponsor30-can |
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BridgeDB still hands out obfs3, ScrambleSuit, and FTE bridges. Tor Browser
no longer supports FTE (see #29319), so we should remove it. I suggest
also removing obfs3 and ScrambleSuit because these transports don't offer
anything that obfs4 doesn't already provide.
As of today, BridgeDB knows about 1,316 bridges. Among these:
* 31 support FTE. 29 of these wouldn't be handed out because they also
support obfs4 (see #28655). The remaining two bridges run FTE/obfs3 and
ScrambleSuit/obfs3/FTE.
* 34 support ScrambleSuit. 32 of these also support obfs4 and only two
don't. Instead, they run obfs3/ScrambleSuit and ScrambleSuit/obfs3/FTE.
* 106 support obfs3. Only seven of these don't support obfs4.
Considering the above, I think it's safe to retire FTE, ScrambleSuit, and
obfs3.
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