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@torproject Q: I wish there was a similar tool test #Bridges, as bridges.torproject.org/scan/ is not that good and I don't want to hammer it with dozens of addresses, cuz at best that's quite antisocial if not possibly trigger responses assuming this is an intelligence gathering operation.

  • Ideally sone standalone binary that one can just give a list of #TorBridge|s in a text file (similar to the way one can just past them in at #TorBrowser) would help.

I.e.

bridgetest -v4 obfs4 203.0.113.0:80 …

bridgetest -v6 webtunnel [2001:DB8::1]:443 …

bridgetest -list ./tor.bridges.list.private.tsv
  • But maybe #onionprobe already does that. In that case please tell me to "#RTFM!"

Similarly there needs to be a more granular way to request #TorBridges from #BridgeDB (as it's basically impossible to get #IPv4 #Webtunnel addresses nor is there an option to filter for #ports like :80 & :443 to deal with restrictive #firewalls (i.e. on public #WiFi)…

  • there are flags like ipv6=yes but neither ipv4=yes nor ipv6=no yielded me other resultd than #IPv6 webtunnel bridges…

And before anyone asks: Yes, I do have a "legitimate purpose" as some of my contacts do need Bridges to get beyond a mandatory firewall and/or do use #TorBrowser (through an #SSH tunnel) to circumvent Tor & #VPN blocks and maintain privacy (as many companies do block sometimes entire #Hosters' ASNs due to rampant #scrapers

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One thing that @tails_live / @tails / #Tails needs to add in their "#Tor Connection Wizard" is a link to the @torproject TCP reachability test.

  • OFC people gonna have issues connecting if the #TorBridge they used is offline!

Which is why it would be so much better to be able to add more than one Tor #Bridge to it, like on #TorBrowser.

  • It took me an hour of supporting someone in need of a bridge on how to fix this mess despite their hardware clock being correct.
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#WhatsMissing: A tool to check if #TorBridges are still available/online/reachable that one can use either #standalone (with #TorBrowser and/or #Tor Expert Bundle) or on @tails_live / @tails / #Tails.

  • Cuz I do run into issues and kinda want to sort #Bridges by availability so I don't waste time on a #TorBridge that is down and also thin-out the list of bridges that ain't online anymore.

Whilst I do acknowledge that @torproject do disrecommend having a huge list of Tor Bridges on hand, I do regularly need them for contacts who are behind a #GreatFirewall and can't #SSH-Tunnel out of it.

Espechally being able to filter for #IPv4only and not just #IPv6only is something I miss, alongside the filter for #PluggableTransports type as @guardianproject #Orbot seems to only handle #obfs4 and not webtunnel or #meek at all...

  • I'm pretty certain that merely pinging a bridge at it's port isn't working as a shure-fire way to check for it's availability.
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@MsDropbear42 I'd recommend everyone (nit just the staff at [REDACTED], an ISP that pulls my repo daily to #ban #Roskomnadnozr's eMail Address since it's known and priven to file bogus reports...

  • Sadly I couldn't convince the admins of said ISP to spin up a @torproject #TorBridge every time they got such horseshite...

Needless to say I'd recommend #SSH-Tunneling in the cases if #Russia & "P.R." #China simply because they won't block that as they desire their domestic #Cybercrime & #Cyberterrorism groups to continue foreign targets...

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One thing that @torproject is missing is a way to check availability and reachability of #Bridges with a simple tool.

  • This is kinda vital as I do occasionally setup private #bridges and also want to enshure the private #TorBridges list I have is up to date.

Manually adding/removing one #bridge after the other in #TorBrowser and see if those connect is a relatively inefficient process and merely pinging them isn't viable either, espechally on #meek, #obfs4 and #snowflake type bridges.

  • Now to make the obvious clear: I'd NEVER publicly list any #TorBridge on my lists.d repo obviously, because that would only harm #Tor...

I'm not even asking for like a fancy tool that is as clean as @micahflee 's #OnionShare but merely a #CLI thing (if necessary I'd build some #bash script) to automatically attempt to connect to said bridge and either spit out an ok or error.

  • Something one can just feed with a text file and that'll spit out a different file with ok/working bridges and/or discards the non-working ones from the list.

And yes, this tool is kinda crucial as I want to quickly sift through a load of bridges that work on restricted ports (22, 80, 443) and thus can bypass the #GreatFirewall and #Roskomnadzor filtering...

  • So people fleeing can at least safely communicate.

If anyone at #TorProject needs more details, I'll gladly exchange them in a secure manner.

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There are several issues I have with @torproject 's #BridgeDB:

For once, it's good and convenient but it's filtering options are half broken.

For example bridges.torproject.org/bridges will get me a #Webtunnel #TorBridge that has #IPv6, but setting ipv6=no or ipv4=yes doesn't work.

Nor can I add ports=80,443 or port=443&port=80 or similar.

So it would be really cool if one could just query stuff like that [OFC I'm not talking about the CAPTCA, that exist for reasons]...

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