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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/19/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott Bennett</b> <<a href="mailto:bennett@cs.niu.edu">bennett@cs.niu.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> On Mon, 19 May 2008 04:31:42 -0400 "Grant Heller" <<a href="mailto:torstatistics@gmail.com">torstatistics@gmail.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>>Can I get some feedback regarding the deployment of an exit node restricted<br>>to port 443?<br>><br>>My rationale is fairly simple, I believe in free speech and want to help<br>>make it available to everyone, especially those whose governments<br>
>criminalize certain kinds of speech. I am also aware of some of the<br>>weakness' of Tor such as the lack of end to end encryption when<br>>using nonsecure protocols. My desire is to provide a communications<br>
>mechanism that enforces end to end encryption.<br>><br>>Do any interested members of this list feel that such a restrictive exit<br>>node is worth the bother and helpful to the project?<br>><br> Any relay is helpful. If you provide exit service to any ports at all,<br>
it is an additional benefit. Please do it.<br> That said, you may also wish to browse through /etc/services if you are<br>on a UNIX/LINUX system to see which other ports are for services that you<br>might be comfortable providing an exit for. (I don't remember where the<br>
equivalent list is to be found on a Windows system.) My situation is too<br>exposed and vulnerable at present for me to provide exit service for port 80,<br>but do provide it for many other ports on my server (MYCROFTsOtherChild --<br>
look for its exit policy in your cached-descriptors file if you're curious).<br>I have not gotten any complaints about it from my ISP so far either.</blockquote>
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<div>Port 80 is worrisome to me for abuse reasons also. My ISP prohibits dedicated internet servers but I would like to negotiate the privilege to host the node I have specified above. Don't know if they will listen, but am willing to try. I am hoping that they can be convinced that 1. I will limit the bandwidth to a portion of what I purchase and 2. there will not be a flood of abuse complaints. </div>
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<div>The host OS will be the server edition of Ubuntu 8.04.</div>
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<div>btw, I think the Windows equivalent is \windows\system32\drivers\etc\services</div>
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<div>Thanks for your reply</div><br> </div>