[tor-dev] Reproducibility of Pluggable Transports python.msi

[David Fifield]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 03:33:24PM -0400, Brandon Wiley wrote:
> I am in favor of standardizing on the Go codebase for pluggable transports that
> ship with Tor. This is something we talked about at the last developer meeting.
> The reason I favor this is not for reproducible build reasons, but because
> maintaining four implementations (C, Python, C++, and Go) is confusing for PT
> developers. As far as I know, since the last developer meeting all Tor products
> have been migrating towards shipping the Go PT implementation so that they can
> get obfs4 support. Last I checked, some of Tor products are also shipping other
> PT implementations in order to maintain access to transports not available in
> Go. I imagine that there is some time in the future where there will no longer
> be any bridges available for the older transports and so bundling clients for
> them will no longer be necessary. However, I don't know what the current level
> of use for non-Go transports is. I'd love to know if someone has those stats.

You can see the usage of each transport here:

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?graph=userstats-bridge-transport

obfs2 - Go
obfs3 - Go
obfs4 - Go
meek - Go
ScrambleSuit - Go
flash proxy - Python
FTE - Python