Re: [Masque] MASQUE and Tor "pluggable transports"

[Philipp Winter <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 12:29:37PM -0700, David Schinazi wrote:
> We're still at the early stages for MASQUE - the document doesn't yet
> define a wire-format that can be implemented - but once we get a first
> draft of that written up and start implementing it, I'd love to
> experiment with pluggable transports to see how well the obfuscation
> bit of MASQUE plays with them.

Thanks for your interest!  I'd be happy to help out once MASQUE reaches
this stage.

> Additionally, once we've accomplished the goal of using MASQUE to help
> obfuscate Tor traffic, there is interest in the community to go for
> something more ambitious, which is a tighter integration between
> MASQUE (as a way to proxy QUIC over QUIC) and onion routing. We
> suspect that this integration could help with overall performance, but
> a lot of code needs to be written to see if the theory hold water.

FYI, here's a recent summary of this effort, which you may already be
familiar with:
<https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-March/013026.html>

Cheers,
Philipp