Thanks a lot for your quick reply Jake. I'll see if I can align my efforts to help raise funds for this specific project.
I get asked by funders and NGOs, for ideas to invest. I'm personally very interested to help make Tor Hardware router into a reality.
All the best, SiNA On Nov 23, 2013 6:39 AM, "Jacob Appelbaum" jacob@appelbaum.net wrote:
SiNA Rabbani:
Hi,
I am trying to update myself on the status of Tor Router. I remember not too long ago it was a sexy project, funds were raised and people got paid to work on it. Has it been abandoned? How come we still don't have a Tor hardware router?
Hi SiNA,
There is a hardware device where we have focused efforts and we're having internal discussions about how to proceed. This has been a skunkswork project and it is unfunded - the hardware platform we've selected is as open as it gets without being a MilkyMist, which would be ideal (FPGA CPU, etc) but is sadly impractical.
We don't have a Tor Router hardware deployment for a few reasons. Off the top of my head: we would want to raise funds to support Tor Router specific development, user support, tooling for hardware production and then ongoing costs related to the project.
All the best, Jake
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