Introduction

This specification describes a way to decouple protocol-level obfuscation from an application's client/server code, in a manner that promotes rapid development of obfuscation/circumvention tools and promotes reuse beyond the scope of the Tor Project's efforts in that area.

This is accomplished by utilizing helper sub-processes that implement the necessary forward/reverse proxy servers that handle the censorship circumvention, with a well defined and standardized configuration and management interface.

Any application code that implements the interfaces as specified in this document will be able to use all spec compliant Pluggable Transports.

Requirements Notation

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].