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<div>Matt Westfall</div>
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<div>ECAN Solutions, Inc.</div><div>Everything Computers and Networks</div>
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<div>From: "Neel Chauhan" <<a href="mailto:neel@neelc.org">neel@neelc.org</a>></div>
<div>To: <a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a></div>
<div>Sent: 10/19/2019 7:47:28 PM</div>
<div>Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Windows Relay Setup</div><div><br /></div>
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<div class="plain_line">Tor 0.2.4.23 is EOLed and is blacklisted from the network. Vidalia is also EOL and unmaintained.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">Also see: <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/removing-end-life-relays-network">https://blog.torproject.org/removing-end-life-relays-network</a></div>
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<div class="plain_line">If you want a Windows relay, you'll have to configure manually whether you like it or not. It's hard (Tor is Unix-native), and performance sucks when compared to Linux/BSD/macOS, but on the positive Windows is still better for relay diversity than Linux.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">If there is Linux malware hurting the Tor network, we shouldn't just hope for BSD variants to keep us alive. Closed source or not, we should also consider Windows as an alternative relay OS (if you have a license or are willing to buy one). And I'm saying this as someone who runs FreeBSD relays and a FreeBSD desktop myself.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">You can also use a VM, and it may be easier, but if I were you, just use the expert bundle and try to configure Tor as a NT service. You won't have to worry about a hypervisor and will help relay diversity along the way.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">-Neel</div>
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<div class="plain_line"><a href="https://www.neelc.org/">https://www.neelc.org/</a></div>
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<div class="plain_line">On 2019-10-17 15:20, William Pate wrote:</div>
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<div class="plain_line">I finally got around to playing with this some more.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">Thank you for your message, Bruce. I searched for Vidalia and found an</div>
<div class="plain_line">old bundle that appears to work perfectly on my Windows 10 machine.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">Steps I took:</div>
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<div class="plain_line">1. Download Vidalia Bundle 0.2.4.23 from <a href="http://vidalia-bundle.en.lo4d.com/">http://vidalia-bundle.en.lo4d.com/</a></div>
<div class="plain_line">2. Extract</div>
<div class="plain_line">3. Install</div>
<div class="plain_line">4. Start</div>
<div class="plain_line">5. The Vidalia Control Panel will pop-up</div>
<div class="plain_line">6. In settings, I changed the Tor executable from the one included</div>
<div class="plain_line">with the Vidalia Bundle to the current version of Tor elsewhere on my</div>
<div class="plain_line">system.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">Like I said, it *appears* to be working. Can't find it in relay search</div>
<div class="plain_line">yet, but I only set it up moments ago.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">Nickname is inadequate</div>
<div class="plain_line">Contact is <a href="mailto:willpate@disroot.org">willpate@disroot.org</a></div>
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<div class="plain_line">William Pate</div>
<div class="plain_line"><a href="mailto:willpate@pm.me">willpate@pm.me</a></div>
<div class="plain_line">512-947-3311</div>
<div class="plain_line">inadequate.net</div>
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<div class="plain_line">‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐</div>
<div class="plain_line">On Sunday, July 14, 2019 1:44 AM, Barton Bruce <<a href="mailto:barton.bruce@gmail.com">barton.bruce@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="plain_line">William,</div>
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<div class="plain_line">On 7/11/2019 6:58 PM, William Pate wrote:</div>
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<div class="plain_line">> I'm interested in hosting a Windows-based relay, if anyone can point me to a good tutorial. I've tried the most common ones.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">> tor-relays mailing list</div>
<div class="plain_line">> <a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a></div>
<div class="plain_line">> <a href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays</a></div>
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<div class="plain_line">There used to be a VIDALIA (sp?) kit that could simply be downloaded and</div>
<div class="plain_line">run on a windows machine. I then worked for an ISP/CLEC and had lots of</div>
<div class="plain_line">bandwidth so ran Vidaalia on a 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate machine on my</div>
<div class="plain_line">desk at work.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">I never did hear why something had changed at the tor project so that</div>
<div class="plain_line">stopped working, but do remember a rude snippy condescending reply from</div>
<div class="plain_line">someone on the mailing list so I lost interest.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">I did get the head Tor guy from the Central Square Cambridge office of</div>
<div class="plain_line">TOR to come speak at a local networking group's monthly meeting we held</div>
<div class="plain_line">at a MicroSlush faclity in Burlington, MA and it was well received by a</div>
<div class="plain_line">packed audience. I think he now has left TOR and works for some ISP.</div>
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