[guardian-dev] First version of Orbot with Snowflake, 16.4.0 on 2021-01-12?

David Fifield david at bamsoftware.com
Sat Jul 1 00:46:39 EDT 2023


I'm in the middle of helping to write a research paper on Snowflake, and
I would like to fact-check a claim about Orbot:

https://github.com/turfed/snowflake-paper/blob/333cbd9ba083c89de1eb1456e168727bbd1ee1d7/snowflake.tex#L1409
	Orbot, a mobile app that provides a VPN-like Tor proxy, added a
	Snowflake client in version 16.4.0 on 2021-01-12.

Does this look correct? I am pretty sure about the version number, but
less sure about the date.

My source for the 16.4.0 version number (actually
16.4.0-RC-1-tor-0.4.4.6) is the release notes:
https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot/releases/tag/16.4.0-RC-1-tor-0.4.4.6

As for the date, I found different dates with slightly different version
numbers in various APK mirrors:

2021-01-19	v16.4.0-RC-1-tor-0.4.4.6	https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/the-tor-project/orbot-proxy-with-tor/orbot-proxy-with-tor-16-4-0-release/
2021-01-19	v16.4.0-RC-2a-tor-0.4.4.6	https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/the-tor-project/orbot-proxy-with-tor/orbot-proxy-with-tor-16-4-0-release/
2021-02-03	v16.4.0				https://mobile.softpedia.com/apk/orbot-proxy-with-tor/
2021-02-03	v16.4.0-RC-2a-tor-0.4.4.6	https://apkpure.com/orbot-tor-for-android/org.torproject.android/variant/16.4.0-RC-2a-tor-0.4.4.6-APK


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