Monday, February 28, 2022

Re: NEW: net/snowflake_proxy

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 04:39:43PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> any OKs to import this?

Missing WANTLIB += c pthread

Otherwise ok.

>
>
> $ pkg_info snowflake_proxy
> Information for inst:snowflake_proxy-2.1.0
>
> Comment:
> proxy providing Tor access to others with censored net
>
> Description:
> Snowflake is a pluggable transport that can be used for Tor,
> usually for accessing the network when a user is on a connection
> with only partial internet access.
>
> It uses WebRTC negotiations for NAT traversal to connect to mostly
> short-lived volunteer proxies. These proxies can either be provided
> by running a web browser extension or a standalone proxy.
>
> Users behind restrictive access can use snowflake as a bridge,
> e.g. by configuring it in Tor Browser.
>
> Technical information is in
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/wikis/Technical%20Overview
>
> This package provides a proxy, for those who would like to use their
> internet connection to provide access to others via this protocol.
>
> Maintainer: The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
>
> WWW: https://snowflake.torproject.org/
>
>
>
> Index: user.list
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ports/infrastructure/db/user.list,v
> retrieving revision 1.395
> diff -u -p -r1.395 user.list
> --- user.list 16 Feb 2022 18:25:00 -0000 1.395
> +++ user.list 28 Feb 2022 16:38:34 -0000
> @@ -382,3 +382,4 @@ id user group port
> 871 _gelatod _gelatod net/gelatod
> 872 _vmetrics _vmetrics databases/victoriametrics
> 873 _alertmanager _alertmanager sysutils/alertmanager
> +874 _snowflakeproxy _snowflakeproxy net/snowflake_proxy
>



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Tracey Emery

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