China censorship requires at least snowflake-client v.2.9.2 to use Whonix

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Dear Patrick & hulahoop

Thank you for this nicely working distro.
Running /usr/bin/snowflake-client --version with default bridges results in:

snowflake-client 2.5.1
2.5.1 came out back in 2023.

It came to my knowledge, that Default Snowflake bridges in Tor browser 13.0.9 is Blocked in China since around 2024-01-12
To circumvent this, New SQS rendezvous method for Snowflake can be used.
Unfortunately, this method requires at least version 2.9.0 of snowflake-client issued on 2024-02-05, or, even better, 2.9.2 to use new sqscreds parameter.

In the meantime, Debian package maintainers seem to abandon snowflake-client package as the last activity took place back in March 2023:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/snowflake
So to use Whonix, Chinese users have to install Go lang compiler, download Snowflake-client sources and compile them.

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WebTunnel support is also needed.

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Tell me is it possible to connect to tor on whonix in China this way

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@Patrick
I’m not in China, but also in one of extremely censored regions, the only way to connect to Tor are:

  1. WebTunnel
  2. Such style of writing ipv6 bridges, which works in Tor, but doesn’t work in Whonix (GUI throws an incompatible error)
    [2a0b:f4c2:3::90]:9000 225A1FD8FCAD3E4C7938EC841627FC6DB3A4A483

So…Whonix is completely unusable right now, there is no way to connect to it’s Tor network :slightly_frowning_face:
Please, help us.

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