From jacob@appelbaum.net Fri Jul 6 02:35:53 2018 From: Jacob Appelbaum To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [tor-talk] Help users in Iran reach the internet Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:35:53 +0000 Message-ID: <172289094262.3849117.16666614771784067422.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4998950438332590478==" --===============4998950438332590478== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, In the last 48 hours a major campaign of filtering has started in Iran - it started slow and now appears to be that nearly all SSL/TLS traffic is blocked on a few major Iranian ISPs. Details are rather rough but we're working on some solutions - we've long had an ace up our sleeves for this exact moment in the arms race but it's perhaps come while the User Interface edges are a bit rough still. Here's the deal - we need people to run Tor bridges but a special kind of Tor bridge, one that does a kind of traffic camouflaging - we call it an obfuscated bridge. It's not easy to set up just yet because we were not ready to deploy this for everyone yet; it lacks a lot of analysis and it might even only last for a few days at the rate the arms race is progressing, if you could call it progress. There are highly technical instructions here: https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-instructions.html.en Currently if you run such a bridge, you'll either need to manually tell us (via email to tor-assistants(a)torproject.org ) about it or you'll need to share these bridges with people you want to help directly. It's a pain and we're working on it. Here's a bug report where we're working around the clock to get stuff going in a user friendly manner: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5009#comment:17 This kind of help is not for the technically faint of heart but it's absolutely needed for people in Iran, right now. It's likely that more than ~50,000 - ~60,000 Tor users may drop offline. Watch this graph for an idea of the censorship impact of directly connecting Tor users: https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=3Ddirect-users&start=3D2011-1= 1-12&end=3D2012-05-10&country=3Dir&events=3Don&dpi=3D72#direct-users Here's the same graph but for Tor bridge users in Iran: https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=3Dbridge-users&start=3D2011-1= 1-12&end=3D2012-05-10&country=3Dir&dpi=3D72#bridge-users We're working on easy to use client software and if you're in Iran or need one desperately, please email help(a)rt.torproject.org. We'll try to get you a working obfsproxy bridge address and working client software. All the best, Jacob _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============4998950438332590478==--