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diff --git a/doc/spec/proposals/128-bridge-families.txt b/doc/spec/proposals/128-bridge-families.txt index 653a2cf6d6..e8a0050c3c 100644 --- a/doc/spec/proposals/128-bridge-families.txt +++ b/doc/spec/proposals/128-bridge-families.txt @@ -4,11 +4,7 @@ Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Roger Dingledine Created: 2007-12-xx -Status: Finished -Implemented-In: 0.2.0.x - - [This proposal is part implemented, and part dead (won't-implement). - Roger should add a note and merge it into the spec.] +Status: Dead 1. Overview @@ -31,21 +27,40 @@ Implemented-In: 0.2.0.x out the details of how these volunteers find each other and decide to set up a family. +2. Other notes. + + somebody needs to run a bridge authority + + it needs to have a torrc option to publish networkstatuses of its bridges + + it should also do reachability testing just of those bridges + + people ask for the bridge networkstatus by asking for a url that + contains a password. (it's safe to do this because of begin_dir.) -somebody needs to run a bridge authority + so the bridge users need to know a) a password, and b) a bridge + authority line. -it needs to have a torrc option to publish networkstatuses of its bridges + the bridge users need to know the bridge authority line. -it should also do reachability testing just of those bridges + the bridge authority needs to know the password. -people ask for the bridge networkstatus by asking for a url that -contains a password. (it's safe to do this because of begin_dir.) +3. Current state -so the bridge users need to know a) a password, and b) a bridge -authority line. + I implemented a BridgePassword config option. Bridge authorities + should set it, and users who want to use those bridge authorities + should set it. -the bridge users need to know the bridge authority line. + Now there is a new directory URL "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" that + directory mirrors serve if BridgeAuthoritativeDir is set and it's a + begin_dir connection. It looks for the header + Authorization: Basic %s + where %s is the base-64 bridge password. -the bridge authority needs to know the password. + I never got around to teaching clients how to set the header though, + so it may or may not, and may or may not do what we ultimate want. + I've marked this proposal dead; it really never should have left the + ideas/ directory. Somebody should pick it up sometime and finish the + design and implementation. |