Author: Patrick Schleizer Date: To: tails-dev, mcs@pearlcrescent.com >> Mark Smith, brade@pearlcrescent.com >> Kathleen Brade, mikeperry@torproject.org >> Mike Perry Old-Topics: Re: [Tails-dev] using meek with Tails Subject: [Tails-dev] keeping up with pluggable transports by using TBB's Tor
and tor-launcher
Hi!
intrigeri wrote: > [...]
> Still, the landscape of pluggable transports is quickly evolving, and
> indeed we have a hard time staying on top of things in this area.
> [...]
I think it will be simply impossible to keep up with pluggable
transports. We at Whonix are facing the same issue.
Idea:
- Come with a recent release of original TBB from TPO installed by
default with every new release of Tails/Whonix.
- Use the TBB, tor-launcher add-on and pluggable transports from TBB as
the new "system Tor".
Seems like an approach that needs low maintenance from distribution
developers (Debian/Tails/Whonix) as well as from tor-launcher/TBB
developers? Needs no extraction of stuff like meek, flashproxy,
scramblesuit for packaging (policy conform) for Debian.
This requires tor-launcher having a features such as:
- just start Tor Browser without configuring Tor (we already got that
TOR_SKIP_LAUNCH)
- just start Tor with current configuration (missing feature?)
- configure Tor (using tor-launcher), then just start Tor, but don't
start Tor Browser (missing feature?)
