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Objectives that we will have achieved by the end of this project:
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Objectives that we will have achieved by the end of this project:
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* Objective 1: Tor tools and user support materials are available in Turkmen
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* Objective 1: Tor tools and user support materials are available in Turkmen
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To accomplish this Objective, we will localize the following Tor-powered tools, websites, and user support materials to Turkmen:
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• Orbot for Android: 1,383 words
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• Orbot metadata (for Google Play): 1,099 words
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• Orbot website: 1,422 words
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• Main Tor Project website: 11,812 words
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• Tor Browser manual: 8,757 words
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• Subtitles for videos about Tor Browser (482 words), How Tor Browser Protects Your Privacy and Identity Online (319 words): 801 words total
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(Note: We cannot translate Tor Browser itself as part of this project because this would require localizing all of the strings in the underlying Firefox, and we do not have the capacity to do so. We have selected tools that users have identified as the most useful alongside all supporting documentation of Tor Browser.)
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* Objective 2: Users have functional bridge options to connect to Tor
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* Objective 2: Users have functional bridge options to connect to Tor
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To do so, we will increase the capacity of specific types of pluggable transport + bridge combinations that are harder for the government of Turkmenistan to block. In this case, we will use bridges with meek pluggable transports, a mechanism that uses content delivery networks (CDNs) to make Tor traffic look like the user is using a major website.
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- [More Information](Sponsor%20152)
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For example, meek-azure uses Microsoft Azure and makes the user’s traffic look like they are visiting a Microsoft website. Meek bridges have so far remained unblocked by the Turkmenistan government. To achieve this Objective, we will also research other CDNs similar to Azure, like Fastly and Akamai, to determine which ones are not blocked in Turkmenistan and deploy new meek bridges that use these CDNs. Throughout the project we will monitor the reachability and functionality of these bridges for people in Turkmenistan.
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Outside of this project but as part of another grant, we will simultaneously be investigating how the Turkmenistan government is blocking Snowflake, another kind of pluggable transport and bridge option. Once we learn how the government is censoring Snowflake and can defend the system from this censorship, we believe that we can migrate users to this style of bridge and that ultimately Snowflake bridges alleviate the need for meek bridges.
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[Tracking tickets for this project](https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?label_name[]=Sponsor%20152).
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[Tracking tickets for this project](https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?label_name[]=Sponsor%20152).
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