getBogusProxy()

in src/js/utils.js [29:59]

• 26 lines of code
• 4 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

  getBogusProxy() {
    const bogusFailover = 1;
    const bogusType = "socks4";
    const bogusPort = 9999;
    const bogusUsername = "foo";
    if(typeof window.Utils.pregeneratedString !== "undefined")
    {
      return {type:bogusType, host:`w.${window.Utils.pregeneratedString}.coo`, port:bogusPort, username:bogusUsername, failoverTimeout:bogusFailover};
    }
    else
    {
      // Initialize Utils.pregeneratedString
      window.Utils.pregeneratedString = "";

      // We generate a cryptographically random string (of length specified in bogusLength), but we only do so once - thus negating any time delay caused
      const bogusLength = 8;
      const array = new Uint8Array(bogusLength);
      window.crypto.getRandomValues(array);
      for(let i = 0; i < bogusLength; i++)
      {
        const s = array[i].toString(16);
        if(s.length === 1)
          window.Utils.pregeneratedString += `0${s}`;
        else
          window.Utils.pregeneratedString += s;
      }

      // The only issue with this approach is that if (for some unknown reason) pregeneratedString is not saved, it will result in an infinite loop - but better than a privacy leak!
      return getBogusProxy();
    }
  },