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Filename: 128-bridge-families.txt
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Title: Families of private bridges
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Version: $Revision$
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Last-Modified: $Date$
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Author: Roger Dingledine
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Created: 2007-12-xx
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Status: Dead
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1. Overview
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Proposal 125 introduced the basic notion of how bridge authorities,
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bridge relays, and bridge users should behave. But it doesn't get into
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the various mechanisms of how to distribute bridge relay addresses to
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bridge users.
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One of the mechanisms we have in mind is called 'families of bridges'.
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If a bridge user knows about only one private bridge, and that bridge
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shuts off for the night or gets a new dynamic IP address, the bridge
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user is out of luck and needs to re-bootstrap manually or wait and
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hope it comes back. On the other hand, if the bridge user knows about
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a family of bridges, then as long as one of those bridges is still
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reachable his Tor client can automatically learn about where the
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other bridges have gone.
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So in this design, a single volunteer could run multiple coordinated
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bridges, or a group of volunteers could each run a bridge. We abstract
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out the details of how these volunteers find each other and decide to
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set up a family.
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2. Other notes.
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somebody needs to run a bridge authority
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it needs to have a torrc option to publish networkstatuses of its bridges
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it should also do reachability testing just of those bridges
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people ask for the bridge networkstatus by asking for a url that
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contains a password. (it's safe to do this because of begin_dir.)
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so the bridge users need to know a) a password, and b) a bridge
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authority line.
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the bridge users need to know the bridge authority line.
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the bridge authority needs to know the password.
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3. Current state
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I implemented a BridgePassword config option. Bridge authorities
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should set it, and users who want to use those bridge authorities
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should set it.
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Now there is a new directory URL "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" that
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directory mirrors serve if BridgeAuthoritativeDir is set and it's a
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begin_dir connection. It looks for the header
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Authorization: Basic %s
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where %s is the base-64 bridge password.
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I never got around to teaching clients how to set the header though,
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so it may or may not, and may or may not do what we ultimate want.
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I've marked this proposal dead; it really never should have left the
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ideas/ directory. Somebody should pick it up sometime and finish the
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design and implementation.
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