[tor-dev] Feature Request: please consider ship default Tor bridges

[iry]

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Hello Tor people!

A set of Tor bridges are shipped with Tor browser bundle[0], helping
users in Tor-censored area to connection to the Tor network. Since
system Tor users may also face the censorship problem, shall we
ship some Tor bridges along with the tor package?

The request is firstly reported[0] to Debian BTS and I got the
following reply by Peter:

> If upstream starts shipping bridges with their Tor releases, that
> would naturally result in the Tor package shipping bridges as
> well.
> 
> I do not know whether that's a good idea or not, but I don't think 
> deviating from upstream would be particularly worthwhile.

The following is some related information which may help the future
discussion:

The possible formats to hold those bridges can be:
1. JSON which is also the way tor-connection-wizard used so far[1];
2. plain text which is the same formatt given by the BridgeDB[2] by Tor
Project;
3. "Bridge" + plain text which is ready to be appended to a torrc file
or to be one of the torrc files in /etc/torrc.d/ (or whatever torrc.d
path Debain decides to use)

The default bridge shipped with tor package should be exactly the same
bridges contained in bridge_prefs.js[0] shipped with the latest stable
TBB. This is because:
1. The servers hosting default bridges are set up for huge amount of
traffic;
2. The servers hosting default bridges are probably audited by TPO for
better security;
3. Using a different set of bridges will distinguish the
anon-connection-wizard bridge users from the TBB bridge users, which
compromises their anonymity.

What do you think?

Looking forward to hearing your insights!

Best,
iry

[0]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872456
[1]:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/tree/Bundl
e-Data/PTConfigs/bridge_prefs.js?h=7.5a3-linux
[2]:
https://github.com/irykoon/anon-connection-wizard/blob/master/usr/share/
anon-connection-wizard/bridges_default
[3]: https://bridges.torproject.org/options

Best,
iry
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