What sort of a bridge does a snowflake proxy connection connect to?

[lit144]

hi,

this diagram shows that my snowflake proxy connects the user to a bridge.

but what sort of a bridge? i don’t assume that this is already a guard, because i don’t need to install tor for running the snowflake browser extension.

and in addition: is there a difference with regard to the diagram above in running the snowflake browser extensions vs. the standalone proxy?

thanks.

[WofWca]

@lit144

but what sort of a bridge?

Currently there are just 2 bridges set up for Snowflake, run by the Tor Project.
And yes, they do act as guards. In fact I think it should even be possible to set up your Tor client to connect to them directly (not through a Snowflake proxy), using as a classic bridge.

What a Snowflake proxy does is it simply passes data between the bridge and the client. A Snowflake proxy itself does not include any Tor core code, and does not implement the Tor protocol or any of its inherent features. Again, it simply passes data.

@lit144

is there a difference with regard to the diagram above in running the snowflake browser extensions vs. the standalone proxy?

No, there is no significant functional difference.

[Vort]

@lit144

but what sort of a bridge?

These bridges are operated exclusively by Tor Project.
Here is one of them for example:
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/2B280B23E1107BB62ABFC40DDCC8824814F80A72