-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Chris! Chris Whittleston:

Thanks for this Gordon M - just thought I'd add that if it's useful for anyone, I threw a Pi Tor (middle) relay setup guide together a while ago - you can see it here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bf_D_j1O-9ckTS9DY8ngIdiFwHta6Q5Uj_5dvOia...

This

is great documentation.

If I've omitted anything important - please let me know. I know it's long (and goes through some pretty simple stuff), but the idea was to make it accessible to people who weren't otherwise likely to give setting up a relay a try.

That's the entire ultimate goal of The Cipollini Project - allow people who aren't super technically sophisticated to *easily* set up low-power, plug-and-forget Tor relays to bulk up the total middle-relay capacity of the network in the event of traffic growth, spikes (Turkey being a small example), and botnets. Would you be interested in donating or releasing your docs under some free license (GFDL, appropriate Creative Commons) so they could be wikified or otherwise made collaboratively editable and presented as part of, or as an adjunct to, Cipollini? For now that might mean the Github wiki, but eventually the project will have its own site so less-experienced users can do some "one stop shopping" for documentation. Best, - -Gordon M. - -- http://gordon.morehouse.me/ PGP key: https://twitter.com/gmorehou/status/433481548030300161 Fingerprint: A3D2 D096 C3A7 6960 1138 E326 3FE3 A51A 1EEF FBA3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTMKDjAAoJED/jpRoe7/ujpw8IAJedtcuerLsOqTaSQURCAT9F lp+Bqxk1grvjwiT3E9cFScSsZHafKCPm2wiNOYZsJQzck97WbRrBFjVutE06mD2M 9aT9jmj8/hlcQxaK8Jy8HQSuL2jwW6zX23z7gjmzDjHAPJA6r7nbetM3BXiBMdof fAkbza+/40YIfCli7RzhFbWbfHHB52tXCB8HolY6EsS8OqMvMnt+A+W5TxWNnrxR gWEcubaHGLGM4Aw8un7bX4ghMzuo1+kTGU2r7onQ3fb75QXy4mQbXn6hqensReBb 1Vr0uBQuQxJoakeyolgEEcuANfybEVLA0FTy0oG4BYmwKOwCIPJHy4imLmj0EX8= =A6v6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Chris Whittleston:

Glad you think it might be useful - I don't know why I didn't post it here when I first wrote it back in January.

It'll see the light of day now for sure!

I'm happy to release it under the CC-BY-SA license for anyone to use and have modified the document accordingly. I agree that it would be fantastic to make setting up a middle relay something anyone could do without much technical knowledge. Have you considered a customised build of Raspian or something similar with Tor already included, and some sort of simple setup script?

That's pretty much the idea - eventually we'd like a user to be able to write their SD card, stick it in the Pi, and use a web app to set up and (if desired) to monitor the relay. The project tracker is visible at: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/s/projects/917796 If you click the 'Icebox' button you'll see some long-range plans. It's slow going but there are tons of really useful tools that'll make this a lot easier than it would've been even a couple years ago.

Let me know where you end up putting the documentation, I'd be curious to see what else you are working on :)

Will do! This (which is pretty much R&D stage until I write design docs) is what we're focusing on first for Cipollini - it's a daemon that figures out available bandwidth and attempts to intuit and avoid congestion - thus, though it has wider potential use, it'll meet one of the biggest goals of Cipollini - the boxes will never mess with people's Netflix, and thus they'll leave them plugged in. https://github.com/gordon-morehouse/peergoggles Best, - -Gordon M. - -- http://gordon.morehouse.me/ PGP key: https://twitter.com/gmorehou/status/433481548030300161 Fingerprint: A3D2 D096 C3A7 6960 1138 E326 3FE3 A51A 1EEF FBA3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTML39AAoJED/jpRoe7/ujFMAIAMEnaPrx8uZuS4prN9mF+p91 2ZCCEhSSjAbM2ffW75t3KUuNWCqKjK2iL/7o2galy/veG1UjLu1pXqqKFsueDskT oll7Y7vCeQItm6yhFniQwi1yUPyH4yzA2AOPJ2XedbPGam2nrFMJ43PXemLW6Pps v+tOJdT9BOZPX7p1/ymhzbE1MImPKmz0QLCtjO/xRN54snhl3bh+coXjiy4uMBEr GS2FqU8gf6zNKPAIYGBWXG+LV41atFPrwVdPP3709H/ZqJzxXxr5fAu76Fy0JzWJ w1Nb6gOC/scsLCFxmP0NEbsqV23otyjt31J5ssTr90EMbvqzXiBgM/rT7XrN41c= =jkxn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi Robert, I:

Have you evaluated the Riotboard(.org) for your idea of plug in Tor relay? It looks like it uses about the same amount of energy as the Cubieboard but for a little more money would be a lot more capable.

I haven't, but it's mainly because I've been so preoccupied I haven't been able to keep up with the (delightful) proliferation of these boards. Eventually, what I want is to have a set of small apps and scripts such that *any* system with at least 512MB physical RAM and about the CPU power of a Pi (on the low end) can run a truly plug-and-forget Tor relay. I'm dreaming, long term, of everything from the new frontier of ARM boards to all those doorstop G4 Mac Minis and VIA 'Eden' ITX boards sitting in closets. Best, - -Gordon M. - -- http://gordon.morehouse.me/ PGP key: https://twitter.com/gmorehou/status/433481548030300161 Fingerprint: A3D2 D096 C3A7 6960 1138 E326 3FE3 A51A 1EEF FBA3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTMKGjAAoJED/jpRoe7/ujtA4H/0OqXPuLxbWl34jqEgWZmLCI 57Aya5qVljn0Wi/Spxk1x6QoL3lObAp5Yp1e066ZqjyixBpnJ0/TMrrgdY+vj0BD 0rTftv/zRZsdXZXlHVK83Uj2YWKtVLNpR6Arc5cAXNwjM9WFSh+WOmEvvBzVdJmM xDRmdJt+klJUW4blvLAsZicz5HYNNI6orMAkjmOuoudcaRm6IwZVoI7AvjlhcPsd tHEch4ApT0EUgahNSqW566tDALIUPM4CfR2i8kGwehCdWm3NOkA9BpFa7V37gdji P4zm4b+nKLtK1Ry3kM3fTy4FZHcNXEMLXrG720BDvWO1ZSB3rTwVpPuomDGcSJg= =bBTf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----