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Questions relating to bridge relays, their maintenance and operation.

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Bridge to improve anonymity

Yes, having friends running private/unpublished bridge is a way to improve your anonymity, but here is a caveat : use a pluggable transport like obfs3/4 and use bridge key you obtain/give offline, i.e. … The key is a pluggable transport with the bridge key, other cases exposed Tor protocol to the bridge and failed. …
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Commenting out a wrong bridge

Yes, you need to use SafeLogging 0 for your tor to determine the bridge. After the problem will be fixed - set it to SafeLogging 1 to ensure no leaks in your logs. …
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Self-hosting a bridge relay for my connections?

It's a right thing to do to host your own bridges - especially private ones! It will not compromise your privacy but it will greatly improve the connection quality and stability
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What are the consequences of specifying multiple `ClientTransportPlugin`s?

After that it will be used when the bridge of the type described is added. Your understanding is correct! …
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Converting an existing Tor relay into a bridge, does it make sense?

I'm running a mixed config myself, upgraded to bridge - and it seems that many people are using it. IP haven't been changed, of course …
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Is there a list of countries and organizations blocking Tor?

Actually, no. Because even the countries that officially are not blockin Tor are often trying to play bad things with it, like Russia I'm currently living in...
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Bridges - How to prevent a big adversary to learn all bridges

It works, and exactly like this! To learn published bridges you need : A working Perl + some modules(email-related) A working list of emails OR a script to create ones A...Tor client(!!!) for making …
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Is there a way to use a Bridge as an Exit Node?

So you can't use remote bridge as an exit if it's not configured as one, and you can configure your bridge to be also an exit node. … That's it =) UPDATE: by @Anonymous request for information : To make a Bridge you must add to your torrc next lines : BridgeRelay 1 PublishServerDescriptor 1 or - if you want to be a stealth bridge
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Are bridges a way to prevent identifying Tor exit nodes?

Using a bridge is a way to enter the Tor network, it has literally nothing to do with exiting it: you will have the IP address of the exit node used. …
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Testing my own relay without being evil to the network

First, make sure no problem is showing up on the local test - this case you will need to run your own setup on VM's. Rise your own local directories and do the testing. After that - if nothing seems t …
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Advertise obfs3 Tor bridge on port 80

I used to encounter such an odd behaviour too, try this in your torrc: ClientOnly 0 PublishServerDescriptor bridge the description of PublishServerDescriptor states as well: PublishServerDescriptor … 0|1|v3|bridge,… This option specifies which descriptors Tor will publish when acting as a relay. …
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Key digest for Bridge is wrong length

You need to install obfs4proxy and uncomment the line ClientTransportPlugin obfs4,obfs3 exec /usr/local/bin/obfs4proxy managed - it will tell Tor "what is obfs4" bridge backend. … It's obviously can't parse the Bridge directive - because obfs4 must be "defined" before used. …
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Why is my guard failing a so large amount of circuit?

So - your problem looks like a stock firmware issue, I have had it myself quite often even on a powerful/hardware-beefy routers. Your router looks like to be supported by OpenWRT - check the official …
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debian-tor vs User

Well, it's an obvious flaw in Debian - an empty users. To solve this I suggest the next sequence I'm using myself for more than a decade to mend this kind of things: Make a nossh user group and make …
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Is adding bridges or relay helpful inside a censoring region?

Well, it's not mandatory, if it works without them. But the list of bridges is a must in a censored areas. The best ones are your own private ones on VPS wit the proper scrambling
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