[Pkg-anonymity-tools] OnionShare 1.1 released

[Micah Lee]

On 05/31/2017 03:58 AM, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Micah Lee:
>> Since it launches its own tor subprocess, it doesn't even rely on an
>> existing system tor service, so it "just works" as soon as you open it,
>> without needing to do any system tor configuration.
> 
> Sounds great!
> 
> Is there any facility for configuring bridges or pluggable transports
> before this new tor process shouts "hey, here's a Tor user!" on
> the network?

Nope, there is not. OnionShare's bundled tor doesn't yet support
connecting to bridges, but it should, and it should also prompt you to
configure how you'd like to connect to Tor during the first run, similar
to how Tor Browser does it.

(For now, users can choose to connect to their Tor Browser's tor process
still, which is probably the simplest way to do this. But to not
advertise that they're trying to connect to Tor, they need to put the
correct settings json file in place before opening it first.)

I just opened a few new related issues:
https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/issues/435
https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/issues/436