[tor-dev] Obfsproxy support for Tor Browser Launcher

[David Fifield]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 07:54:30PM +0200, Moritz Bartl wrote:
> On 16.04.2013 19:31, Micah Lee wrote:
> > Do the obfsproxy bundles have the exact same release schedule as normal
> > TBB? 
> 
> Unfortunately, no. Currently, obfsproxy bundles are built by different
> people with a different schedule.
> 
> > At the moment it seems like the current alpha is 2.4.11-alpha-2, and
> > the obfsproxy bundle is at that same version too. Is it ever
> > recommended to run the "stable" obfsproxy bundle?
> 
> The current naming scheme was picked for the last release, releases
> before that used different schemes. You can only hope future releases
> follow the current scheme.
> 
> I believe your best bet here is: Think about how you would want the
> interface to look like, and make it easy for future build people to
> follow that.
> 
> The final goal is to not have separate bundles at all, so you should
> implement it in a way that separate bundles can easily be dropped (or
> added) in the future.

What Moritz says is right.

We're calling the obfsproxy bundles the pluggable transports bundles
now: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-pluggable-transports-bundles-02411-alpha-flashproxy-obfsproxy.

My future plan for not having separate bundles is
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8019#comment:3

I don't anticipate having stable pluggable transports bundles before the
pluggable transport bundles become obsolete (i.e., become part of the
standard browser bundle).

David Fifield