Re: [Tails-dev] using meek with Tails

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Author: intrigeri
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To: goupille, The Tails public development discussion list
New-Topics: [Tails-dev] keeping up with pluggable transports by using TBB's Tor and tor-launcher
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] using meek with Tails
Hi,

goupille wrote (07 Nov 2014 20:05:21 GMT) :
> Hi! we received a mail on tails-bugs from a user upset that
> despite of the fact meek is included in the Tor Browser stable release,
> it is rather impossible to use it with tails (at least I did not
> understand how to use it, the network configuration window is not
> the same as the Tor Browser one).


Thanks for reporting this back to us!

> This user seems very entusiastic about this particular pluggable
> transport because, instead of any other, it seems to work very well in
> China.


AFAIK, obfs3 bridges still work in China as well, and they do work
just fine in Tails.

Still, the landscape of pluggable transports is quickly evolving, and
indeed we have a hard time staying on top of things in this area.
We already had #7909 (Support scramblesuit bridges, almost done, and
on my plate for 1.3) and #7980 (Support obfs4 bridges), and I've just
created #8243 (Support meek bridges).

It's entirely unclear to me which ones we should prioritize.
Assuming we add support for Scramblesuit in Tails 1.3, then what
usecases won't we be supporting, that we could support better with
obfs4 or meek?

Cheers,
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intrigeri