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New obfsproxy transport: scramblesuit [bridge operators: please upgrade!]
by George Kadianakis 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Greetings, a few days ago we integrated ScrambleSuit to obfsproxy. ScrambleSuit is a pluggable transport by Philipp Winter; you can find more about it at: http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/scramblesuit/ If you are running a bridge, please consider upgrading your obfsproxy to the latest version (0.2.6) by using pip or fetching the latest git master. Unfortunately, we don't have Linux packages yet, but we will hopefully have some soon. In the meanwhile, we would appreciate some testing :) After you upgrade obfsproxy, please change your ServerTransportPlugin line from: ServerTransportPlugin obfs2,obfs3 exec /usr/bin/obfsproxy managed to: ServerTransportPlugin obfs3,scramblesuit exec /usr/bin/obfsproxy managed This will disable obfs2 [0] and enable scramblesuit. It's also important to know that scramblesuit is a password-based pluggable transport, which means that each scramblesuit bridge has a password and if the user doesn't know the password he/she can't connect to the bridge. If you publishing your bridge to BridgeDB, Tor will automatically send the ScrambleSuit password to BridgeDB so that clients can get it. By default ScrambleSuit will generate a random password; if you want to specify your own password, you can use a torrc line like this: ServerTransportOptions scramblesuit password=LLDNOWV7I4P6RKFJMDEMIY2GNU2IQISA By the way, expect not to see any scramblesuit users in the beginning. After a few people have set up scramblesuit bridges, we will roll out a Tor Browser Bundle with scramblesuit enabled. Feel free to ask any questions you have! Thanks! PS: If you are running a bridge without any pluggable transports, please consider installing obfsproxy [1]. Normal bridges are not hard to block these days and we are working on increasing the number of obfuscated bridges out there. [0]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10314 [1]: https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en

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Trusted Tor Traceroute Scoreboard Link Modified
by Anupam Das 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Hi Relay Operators, We have made some modifications to the way we are running our live scoreboard script. Previously we were running into some problems with handling multiple simultaneous web requests, as the server started a heavy script for each incoming request. Now we are updating a static HTML files every 10 minutes. The link of our scoreboard has changed. Now the scoreboard is available at- http://datarepo.cs.illinois.edu/relay_scoreboard.html Sorry for the inconveniences. Thanks Anupam

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Re: [tor-relays] reading the captchas
by eliaz 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

On 2/10/2014 9:37:23 AM, Lunar (lunar(a)torproject.org) wrote: > eliaz: > > Would it be possible for someone to change the captcha images at the > URL > > for getting bridges, without of course lessening their effectiveness? > > The present ones are pretty much unreadable, to this human at least. - > eliaz > > The issue is already tracked, see: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10809 > -- > Lunar <lunar(a)torproject.org> Thanks for the pointer & your work. I see it's more complicated than I thought. Hope it gets fixed soon, magnifying the screen isn't of much help. I'm reluctant to suggest the page to people as long as reading the captchas is so difficult. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

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High speed exit
by Craig C-S 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

Hi all, I've been running a few fail relays over the past few years. All relays I run they begin with the prefix "Telos". I've recently come across a really good deal http://www.soyoustart.com/ca/en/ on hosting..., and begun hosting "TelosTor" and "TelosTor2" from 192.99.8.96. I would welcome any comments on security. At the moment I do not have a stable IP to access them, so have defaulted to 1/min IP access for OpenSSH. I would relish the TOR communities feedback in order to further secure my tor exit node. Thanks! Craig

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Relay bandwidth
by Tora Tora Tora 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

I have configured Tor with the following (with daily accounting): RelayBandwidthRate 384 KB RelayBandwidthBurst 512 KB I always assumed that the burst bandwidth will set the maximum relay bandwidth. However, by using iftop, I can see individual connections with speeds as high as 2+ Mbps. Even when individual connections are not exceeding burst speeds, adding up bandwidth of all connections would probably exceed allowed relay burst bandwidth. Is this because Tor is using up the bandwidth allowance, since it is well below its long-time average or is this something unexpected that should not be happening?

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using Arm to manage nodes
by jason＠icetor.is 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Hello all, This is something that's bothered me for quite some time. I often use arm (https://www.torproject.org/projects/arm.html.en) for monitoring my relays and to keep a quick eye on things like overall bandwidth consumed, traffic stats and my favorite client locale statistics. I run it in a screen session and often when I re-attach the session often the keymapping is all messed up and the arrow keys will offer to close arm. Usually it will correct after I shift-m to get to the menu and switch around a few times. Has anyone else experienced this and how did you solve it? -Jason

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Re: [tor-relays] Trying Trusted Tor Traceroutes
by Sebastian Urbach 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

Hi, That's odd, please send us your ip address and we will look into this and get back to you asap. Feel free to send me your ip by private mail if you feel more comfortable. I would suggest that you keep running the script, we will check your submitted data and then we go from there. -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Sincerely yours Sebastian Urbach ---------------------------------------------- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ---------------------------------------------- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat and statesman Hi, I've seen this error message twice now within about 12 hours: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host If I read the script correctly, it tries to upload the data and then deletes it without checking for successful upload. Since the data is probably lost, should I start over? Best regards, Alexander --- PGP Key: 0xC55A356B | https://dietrich.cx/pgp On 2014-02-07 22:05, Sebastian Urbach wrote: > Dear list members, > The Trying Trusted Tor Traceroutes project is coming closer to the > next data review (03/2014). > Basically every relay (except Bridges) can help to evaluate the Tor > Routes. Please consider that one complete run takes about 4 days with > the default settings. > It's really easy to participate, just download and run the script ! We > are currently at 82 completed runs and i think 100 is a great > milestone :-) > The project website: > http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~das17/tor-traceroute_v1.html > The scoreboard with the results: > http://datarepo.cs.illinois.edu/relay_scoreboard.html > Thank you for your help ! > -- > Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Sincerely yours > Sebastian Urbach > ---------------------------------------------- > Those who would give up essential Liberty, > to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve > neither Liberty nor Safety. > ---------------------------------------------- > Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Inventor, > journalist, printer, diplomat and statesman > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

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Checking a bridge
by Martin Kepplinger 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

When my bridge uses only the same few MBs each day, i guess it isn't used at all right? Is there a simple way to ensure it is in bridgeDB and functioning as it should? thanks, martin

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Trying Trusted Tor Traceroutes
by Sebastian Urbach 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

Dear list members, The Trying Trusted Tor Traceroutes project is coming closer to the next data review (03/2014). Basically every relay (except Bridges) can help to evaluate the Tor Routes. Please consider that one complete run takes about 4 days with the default settings. It's really easy to participate, just download and run the script ! We are currently at 82 completed runs and i think 100 is a great milestone :-) The project website: http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~das17/tor-traceroute_v1.html The scoreboard with the results: http://datarepo.cs.illinois.edu/relay_scoreboard.html Thank you for your help ! -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Sincerely yours Sebastian Urbach ---------------------------------------------- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ---------------------------------------------- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat and statesman

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Onion address or clearnet address
by Hang 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Some sites such as RiseUp and DuckDuckGo could be accessed via onion addresses. I would like to know which address (onion address vs clearnet address) should I use when using TBB. I believe both ways are more or less the same in terms of identity protection and communication security (provided that the clearnet addresses are using HTTPS). Perhaps the main difference is using the clearnet addresses adds burden to the exit relays, while using onion addresses only consumes bandwidth of middle relays which is relatives more in supply. Am I right? Do I overlook anything? Or it doesn't matter at all for either way? Best Hang

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