[tor-dev] How to build a Router that will only allow Tor users

Martin Kepplinger martink at posteo.de
Wed Mar 16 07:05:37 UTC 2016


Am 2016-03-15 um 19:07 schrieb Rusty Bird:
> Hi Martin,
> 
>> I try to configure OpenWRT in a way that it will only allow outgoing
>> connections if it is Tor. Basically it is the opposite of "blacklisting
>> exit relays on servers": "whitelisting (guard) relays for clients". It
>> should *not* run Tor itself.
> 
> Maybe corridor would work for you: https://github.com/rustybird/corridor
> 
> You could point it at a Tor control port somewhere in your network if
> running tor on OpenWRT (just to fetch the networkstatus consensus
> documents every 1-2 hours) is impossible.

Thanks, I'll have a look at it!

> 
>> What did *not* work, was starting Torbrowser. That's a hard requirement,
>> and before bebugging it through I ask: Do I miss something when I just
>> allow outgoing connections to
>>
>>  * Guard,
>>  * Authority,
> 
> But the authority IP addresses hardcoded in the Tor client source code
> differ from the authority IP addresses published in the networkstatus
> consensus...
> 
> https://github.com/rustybird/corridor/commit/a56d751df399ab1c54f64b0d4dc59f732dc0adc3
> 
>>  * and HSDir flagged relays (do I *need* them? that's a different
>> question probably)
> 
> AFAICT, regular clients only make connections to authorities and guards.
> 
> Rusty
> 


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