[tor-talk] question about bridge relays

[Kevin Nestor]

Thanks, guys.

This actually wasn’t hard to understand - I just hope someone adds the updated screenshots to the site; I would if I had the time these days.

Cheers!

-Kevin

On Jan 27, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Matthew Finkel <matthew.finkel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 01:09:39AM -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 04:43:02PM -0600, Kevin Nestor wrote:
>>> all of your posts and videos about setting up for to use a bridge rely
>>> on an older version of bridge that uses vidalia separately.
>>> 
>>> Now that everyone can only download the Tor browser bundle that opens
>>> as a single browser (mine being a mac), you can not get anything in the
>>> settings menu that gives you the option to ?find bridges.?  What can
>>> you do to find a local bridge?
>> 
>> The "find bridges" button was broken on Vidalia anyway, ever since
>> https://bridges.torproject.org/ added a captcha to make it harder for
>> bad guys to automate pretending to be lots of people and learn lots of
>> bridges addresses.
>> 
>> Now the right answer is to go to https://bridges.torproject.org/ and
>> learn some bridges. Then you can either choose 'configure' rather than
>> 'connect' when you start TBB the first time, in which case it will walk
>> you through adding the bridges you found, or if you've already started
>> TBB, go to 'open network settings' in your Torbutton (the green onion near
>> the URL bar) and select 'my ISP blocks connections to the Tor network'.
>> 
> 
> To add to this, be aware that if you go to
> https://bridges.torproject.org/ then you will likely receive two types
> of bridges. There are "vanilla" bridges and there are bridges which that
> Tor Project call Pluggable Transports. If you copy the bridges from the
> website into the Tor Browser Bundle, as Roger described, you may only be
> able to use some of them, which is fine, you only need one bridge to
> work. If you would like all of the bridges on the website to work then
> you will want to download the Pluggable Transport-capable Tor Browser
> Bundle. It's a little larger in size but it provides additional
> functionality that is important if you are somewhere that censors Tor
> connections.
> 
> The pluggable transport bundle is available from [0]. If you are using a
> Mac then you will want to choose one from the first 13 links, the links
> that contain osx32 in the file name, and you'll want to choose the link
> that provides your preferred language, if it's available (de = German,
> en-US = US English, es-ES = Spanish (Spain), fa = Farsi, etc).
> 
> There is also a FAQ page which will hopefully answer some of your
> questions. One of the sections[1], "How do I use pluggable transports?"
> provides instructions and some bridges to help you get started. If
> possible, follow Roger's instructions above to add the 'obfsproxy'
> bridge lines in that section, if that doesn't work then try to follow
> the instructions on that webpage.
> 
> The announcement that was made for this pluggable transport-capable TBB
> can be found on [2]. It provides some more links and additional
> information (including the two links I mentioned above).
> 
> Sorry if these instructions are difficult to follow or understand.
> Whether or not you need to use the pluggable transport-capable bundle
> really depends on where you are. If you don't know if you need to use
> pluggable transports then try following Roger's directions first. If you
> are still unable to connect to the Tor network then try to follow the
> instruction for the pluggable transport-capable bundle.
> 
> [0] https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/pt-bundle/3.5-pt20131217/
> [1] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#PluggableTransports
> [2] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-bundle-35-released
> 
>> If somebody reading this wants to make some updated screenshots for
>> https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges#UsingBridges
>> that would be swell.
>> 
> 
> That really would be swell. The easier we can make this, with
> step-by-step visual instructions, the bettwe.
> 
> I hope this helps,
> - Matt
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