Agreed! In fact, our team at Stony Brook just completed a study on the huggability of current PTs. One of our results is that the Scramblesuit bumblebee fared worst. It caused some of our study participants to report us to the IRB. We in turn chose to blame David for encouraging this study.

Next, we went on to study possible replacements and found that the Scramblesuit rabbit [1] did significantly better! As a side benefit, it made all the censors go awwww and let it right through.

Expect our full results at USENIX Security.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:24 AM, David Fifield david@bamsoftware.com wrote:

In an effort to improve pluggable transports' visual identity, we should introduce a line of stuffed animals. The only rule that the the animal's name has to be made out of the transport name.

The meek meerkat! [1] The obfs blobfish! [2] The FTE eft! [3] The flash proxy banded quail (Philortyx fasciatus)! [4] The ScrambleSuit bumblebee (Bombus centralis)! [5]

Call now, operators are standing by.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerkat [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blobfish [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eft [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philortyx_fasciatus [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_centralis _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev