[tor-project] Arranging new default obfs4 bridges

[Mart van Santen]

On 03/14/2017 03:41 AM, David Fifield wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 02:34:39PM +0100, Mart van Santen wrote:
>> Are there any special requirements (hardware/network) for a obfs4
>> bridges and what are the typical resources needed? I think we have
>> sufficient capacity within our infrastructure to support you with this,
>> but would like some details. A quick scan on the Internet didn't reveal
>> any surprising, but probably you know all better. Also, are there any
>> geographical preferences?
> There are no real requirements for hardware or network, though of course
> the bigger the better. You should count on about 1.5 cores being
> consumed by tor and obfs4proxy, so a two-core machine may struggle
> (bridge operators: does that match your experience?).
>
> Here are some of the existing default bridges; you can see from their
> bandwidth graphs that they tend to read/write 5–30 MB/s:
> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/D9C805C955CB124D188C0D44F271E9BE57DE2109
> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/3E0908F131AC417C48DDD835D78FB6887F4CD126
> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/FEC8FB380DABA9D3C80790B634E4540BF5D09CCA
> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/FFD3FAB14109181882D3F25F78A9FE1840D113DD
> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/D3D4A456FCB5F301F092F6A49ED671B84B432FB8
>
> As for geographic preferences, I don't know.
Hello all,

In that case I do not see any problems to run a few, to a maximum of 4.
For example 2 in Europe, and 2 in Asia.

Please let me know if you want us to move forward with this.


Regards,

Mart



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