On Thu, Oct 29, 2015, at 09:19 AM, Yawning Angel wrote:
Hello all,
In an attempt to make Pluggable Transports more accessible to other people, and to have a spec that is more applicable and useful to other projects that seek to use Pluggable Transports for circumvention, I have drafted a re-write of the spec.
This is not intended to alter existing behavior, but instead make it clear that the whole "Pluggable Transports" thing isn't just for Tor.
Unless people have serious objections, this will replace the existing PT spec, to serve as a stop-gap while the next revision of the PT spec (that does alter behavior) is being drafted/implemented.
Any small or big changes to highlight that push us to the more accessible goal?
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:27:53 -0400 Nathan Freitas nathan@freitas.net wrote:
Any small or big changes to highlight that push us to the more accessible goal?
Well, it emphasizes that it's generic, gives a better view of the architecture, and should be usable by anyone competent (unless my rewrite is bad) to add support for Pluggable Transports to any client/server code base.
All the Tor specific stuff is neatly contained in it's own section now that people can be free to ignore.
Stuff it still should do:
* Fold in the ExtORPort spec since that's useful for people that aren't tor.
* Document the tor pt external mode torrc configuration format (In my defense, the current spec doesn't do this either).
So, yes? Dunno. There's a limit to how far I can de-torify this sort of document, and I think this is a reasonable step in the right direction.
Regards,
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Nathan Freitas -
Yawning Angel