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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Planningon running bridge with bw limitation - config
help (Kostas Jakeliunas)
2. Re: Raspberry Pi Relay Node Performance and future Plans on
Documentation and more (tor_bridge@mail.md)
3. Re: Raspberry Pi Relay Node Performance and future Plans on
Documentation and more (Roman Mamedov)
4. Is it safe to run an exit node from a VPS provider?
(Sindhudweep Sarkar)
5. Re: Raspberry Pi Relay Node Performance and future Plans on
Documentation and more (Kostas Jakeliunas)
6. Re: Is it safe to run an exit node from a VPS provider?
(Moritz Bartl)
7. Re: Is it safe to run an exit node from a VPS provider?
(Steve Snyder)
8. Question about TOR bandwidth management (tor@t-3.net)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:20:25 +0300
From: Kostas Jakeliunas <kostas@jakeliunas.com>
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Planningon running bridge with bw limitation
- config help
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Moritz Bartl <moritz@torservers.net> wrote:
> On 13.08.2013 08:02, Kali Tor wrote:
> > I am actually in double minds about using obsproxy. Is there a demand
> for it?
>
> Yes! Please do set up obfsproxy.
Since obfsproxy bridges are usually really low traffic, I think the
combination of an obfsproxy bridge and raspberrypi makes quite a bit of
sense (that's what I'm running in any case, no problems so far (I also had
to compile Tor for armv6 from source)) :)
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:02:35 +0000
From: <tor_bridge@mail.md>
To: <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org>
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Raspberry Pi Relay Node Performance and
future Plans on Documentation and more
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Hello all,
> For any Raspberry Pi Tor node operators breathlessly following this
> thread :P I succeeded in building 0.2.4.16-rc on the Pi. We will see
> how it performs now vs the circuit creation storms.
me too on the pi with kernel 3.6.11, using this source:
https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.4.16-rc.tar.gz
it took 32 minutes to configure and compile (make && make install).
> This is not a simple Debian-type binary package install, as the
> packages present in the Tor Project experimental repos are built for
> *Debian* wheezy - that is, ARMv7 - and not *Raspbian* which was built
> to support the ARMv6 CPU on the Pi.
I'm wondering, is there any other method for running a tor
bridge/relay on
the raspberry pi, other than downloading the source and compiling it
yourself?
Is it possible for the Tor project to make an extra option on the page
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-unix.html.en
with instructions for people to run a bridge/relay on the Pi? I think
it
will help people not to spend time on installing the experimental
wheezy
package for the ARMv7 architecture.
Tor_Bridge
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:58:12 +0600
From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Raspberry Pi Relay Node Performance and
future Plans on Documentation and more
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:02:35 +0000
<tor_bridge@mail.md> wrote:
> I'm wondering, is there any other method for running a tor
> bridge/relay on
> the raspberry pi, other than downloading the source and compiling it
> yourself?
Raspbian has it in the repositories[1].
apt-get install tor
Done. No need to build anything from the source.
[1] http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/t/tor/
--
With respect,
Roman
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:04:10 -0400
From: Sindhudweep Sarkar <sindhudweep.sarkar@gmail.com>
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: [tor-relays] Is it safe to run an exit node from a VPS
provider?
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Hi,
Over the past month I've been running a tor exit relay in a spare VPS
machine that I am not using.
It occurs to me know that this was probably a very poor idea, as I can't
control the physical access to the machine or encrypt private key.
In the good bad ISPs
page<https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISPs>,
I see that some cloud providers are listed (aws, etc). This implies that
such a practice is okay, but If linode or a malicious party wanted to read
the contents of /var/lib/tor/keys I don't think they'd have any difficulty
whatsoever. How do folks secure their relay's keys on a vps environment? Or
should I shutdown this relay and run a relay only when I am sure the keys
are secured?
-JB
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:04:42 +0300
From: Kostas Jakeliunas <kostas@jakeliunas.com>
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Raspberry Pi Relay Node Performance and
future Plans on Documentation and more
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:02:35 +0000
> <tor_bridge@mail.md> wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering, is there any other method for running a tor
> > bridge/relay on
> > the raspberry pi, other than downloading the source and compiling it
> > yourself?
>
> Raspbian has it in the repositories[1].
>
> apt-get install tor
>
> Done. No need to build anything from the source.
>
You need Tor 0.2.4.* to run an obfsproxy bridge, which I wanted to do.
Wheezy repo only has 0.2.3.*; 0.2.4.* is only in the experimental Debian
distro repo [1], afaik.
[1]: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/tor
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:32:02 +0200
From: Moritz Bartl <moritz@torservers.net>
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Is it safe to run an exit node from a VPS
provider?
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On 13.08.2013 15:04, Sindhudweep Sarkar wrote:
> Over the past month I've been running a tor exit relay in a spare VPS
> machine that I am not using.
> It occurs to me know that this was probably a very poor idea, as I can't
> control the physical access to the machine or encrypt private key.
This is a very valid question. So far, we have weighted in favor of
"more exit capacity". If you require all exits to be on dedicated
machines, you lose a lot of diversity and thus, potentially, anonymity.
Of course, you should prefer dedicated machines over virtual machines,
and own hardened hardware over off-the-shelf servers. We're not yet in a
(well-funded?) state where we can expect everyone to do this.
--
Moritz Bartl
https://www.torservers.net/
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:58:34 -0400
From: Steve Snyder <swsnyder@snydernet.net>
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Is it safe to run an exit node from a VPS
provider?
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On 08/13/2013 09:04 AM, Sindhudweep Sarkar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Over the past month I've been running a tor exit relay in a spare VPS
> machine that I am not using.
>
> It occurs to me know that this was probably a very poor idea, as I can't
> control the physical access to the machine or encrypt private key.
Running an exit node in a VM is better than not running an exit node at all.
That said, not all virtualization is created equally. An OpenVZ
container (which is really not virtualization at all) leaves all your
files being just files on the host disk.
Anyone on the host console can just do a "locate fingerprint" to see
those files in all containers and can list the processes running to see
your relay.
At least with Xen/KVM/VMware you're running on your own virtual disk,
and are running all processes in a self-contained environment. The
traffic can still be sniffed by the host, of course, but you get more
privacy than you would in an OpenVZ container.
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:46:08 -0400
From: tor@t-3.net
To: <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org>
Subject: [tor-relays] Question about TOR bandwidth management
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Hello,
Is it possible to configure a TOR node to have different bandwidth
limits at different times of day and on different days of the week?
Thank you.
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