Message on tor-internal reacting to Tonga sunsetting

Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 11:15:29 +0200
From: Sebastian Hahn <sebastian@torproject.org>
To: tor-internal@lists.torproject.org, Karsten Loesing <karsten@torproject.org>, Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>, Roger Dingledine
        <arma@mit.edu>
Subject: [tor-internal] Tonga is going away permanently Aug 31
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Hey,

Lucky announced[0] that he is quitting all his Tor involvement including
operation of Tonga and several relays. The relays should not cause any
problems, but we need to deploy a new bridge auth asap, make sure it can
transfer descriptors as the current one does etc.

We need a supremely trusted operator for this, as they see sensitive
data that they shouldn't lose, as well as someone who is able to provide
a very high-availability system because bridge auth works quite
differently compared to the dirauth system.

Nevertheless, this will cause severe disruption for the bridge ecosystem
as our users typically take a long time to update their version of Tor.
We should strive to have this set up very soon and included in a Tor
release well before Aug 31, and yet it will still cause disruptions.

The above is just my take on the whole thing and I'm somewhat shocked by
the development.

Sebastian

[0]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19690

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