Status of Torouter project
Hello all, So I'm part of a team working on wireless mesh, and Torouter has come up a few times this week. Is it actively being developed? Given the state of the roadmap [1], I'd sort of assumed it was inactive or on hiatus, but others had heard differently. thanks, Griffin Boyce -- Technical Program Associate, Open Technology Institute #Foucault / PGP: 0xAE792C97 / OTR: saint@jabber.ccc.de
Griffin Boyce:
Hello all,
So I'm part of a team working on wireless mesh, and Torouter has come up a few times this week. Is it actively being developed? Given the state of the roadmap [1], I'd sort of assumed it was inactive or on hiatus, but others had heard differently.
thanks, Griffin Boyce
I am happy to hear about any status updates. ficus moved it forward: http://ficus.robocracy.org/ Not sure if he's still working on it / still interested. Added to cc. See also status update from March 2012: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-March/023799.html Accesslabs: no visible progress. No saying there is none or they are not working on it, but I never found a public mailing list, git repository, trac timeline is empty. Happy to be proven wrong. Perhaps mail them. Other links: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Torouter https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Torouter/Roadmap About Accesslabs TorWRT: Not sure it's good to base a Tor Router and WRT, which uses OPKG Package Manager, which does not sign/verify packages. So an MITM is in position to send a malicious update. Not very good for a security sensitive project.
adrelanos <adrelanos@riseup.net> wrote:
Accesslabs: no visible progress. No saying there is none or they are not working on it, but I never found a public mailing list, git repository, trac timeline is empty. Happy to be proven wrong. Perhaps mail them.
I haven't heard of any substantial movement on torouter in maybe a year or so. Some assume that development was ongoing because the idea of torouter is so appealing, but from a developer perspective, that is not the best place to be.
Not sure it's good to base a Tor Router and WRT <snip> Not very good for a security sensitive project.
I only sort-of agree. Installing/updating with opkg is problematic for the reasons you mention, but I work on an OpenWRT-based project, and we manually install/update rather than use opkg. (But we're also working with a model where people may not have realistic internet access). [1] ~Griffin [1] https://github.com/opentechinstitute -- Technical Program Associate, Open Technology Institute #Foucault / PGP: 0xAE792C97 / OTR: saint@jabber.ccc.de
On Sun, 12 May 2013, adrelanos wrote:
Griffin Boyce:
Hello all,
So I'm part of a team working on wireless mesh, and Torouter has come up a few times this week. Is it actively being developed? Given the state of the roadmap [1], I'd sort of assumed it was inactive or on hiatus, but others had heard differently.
thanks, Griffin Boyce
I am happy to hear about any status updates.
ficus moved it forward: http://ficus.robocracy.org/
Not sure if he's still working on it / still interested. Added to cc.
I'm still alive. I have not had enough free time for active progress in the past months, but I am optimistic that a combined HW/SW beta will be forthcoming (no tenative date). What is your interest in torouter? Review of configurations and defaults would probably be mutually beneficial. I have some crude old notes online, eg: http://ficus.robocracy.org/?p=torouter-live.git;a=blob;f=doc/dns-dhcp.txt;h=... If you contact me off-list I will report back here with a summary.
Griffin Boyce:
Hello all,
So I'm part of a team working on wireless mesh, and Torouter has come up a few times this week. Is it actively being developed? Given the state of the roadmap [1], I'd sort of assumed it was inactive or on hiatus, but others had heard differently.
Yes, it is. I'm working on it and so are a number of other people. All the best, Jacob
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Jacob Appelbaum