🇮🇷 Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage.
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I operate, and have for years already, a regular relay. Is that of any help? I might be able to fire up another one, albeit with a rather limited bandwidth. -
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@sb @torproject we have to connect to a broker, which gives us an IP address of an active proxy. The broker itself is domain fronted behind another big website (like bunny.net, cdn77, these two currently work on MCI, in my region at least) -
@sb @torproject Snowflake clients and snowflake proxies find each other via a broker:
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@sb @torproject I'm not sure exactly how, but maybe because snowflake proxies are used as entry nodes, broker discovers them the same way that TOR entry nodes are discovered (which I also don't know how)
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@sb @torproject found something
"Proxies poll the broker periodically, using ordinary HTTPS requests."
https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/snowflake/ -
@sb @torproject also snowflake works behind NAT, there is no need for opening a port. -
@joevan @Ann_Effes @torproject Are we talking about security here?
Having this as a browser extension, next to my banking, email, docs and all, sounds a little crazy. This should be a process running under its own user. -
@OndrejZizka @Ann_Effes @torproject
For LINUX:
- it is open source
- it runs in the context of Firefox
- it does not need any additional rightsFor WINDOWS:
- everything is always not secure
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@OndrejZizka @Ann_Effes @torproject
But if you are concerned: Buy a used Raspberry Pi, install the OS and Docker. Run Snowflake in a docker container:
https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/standalone/docker/
20 to 30 bucks and 30 minutes to install everything
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