What happened to conjure bridges?

Hello,

I’d like to ask, what happened to Tor’s conjure bridges? There was an alpha test a while ago, with one conjure bridge given out for testing, but after that I’ve heard nothing more about it. When trying to connect to the only available conjure bridge, it always fails with “Registration failed: station under high load” or something like that. Aren’t there going to be any more conjure bridges? Is the conjure bridges project going to be deprecated? Will the capacity of the existing bridge be increased?

Thank you.

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Everything I know, still under active development and can only be provided by ISPs.

Relatively new but ready:
Webtunnel Bridges

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Ok, but why aren’t there any new bridges? And why hasn’t the capacity of the existing bridge been increased, at the very least?

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I don’t know all the details, but they seem to be struggling with finding new infrastructure for this type of bridges. Many CDNs have stopped supporting domain fronting Fastly blocked domain fronting (#135) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab. And the others aren’t suitable CDN77 masks client IPs (#49) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / conjure · GitLab.

As I mentioned above, Fasly CDN has blocked domain fronting, so the old bridge no longer works. You can try using the new bridge, unfortunately without domain fronting.

conjure 143.110.214.222:80 50B99540A96C5E9F9F7704BAAE11DF01564711F4 url=https://registration.refraction.network

Conjure is not ready to be used in the real world. We are working on improving it to be ready but until then is not recommended to be used for anything else than testing.

We run experiments on the bridge and it is expected to fail.

Do no rely on conjure to connect to Tor for now, you can use other Pluggable Transports like obfs4, snowflake or webtunnel. We’ll make an announcement when is ready to be used.

I tried it, still shows the same error :frowning: