[tor-mirrors] New Tor Mirror and Introduction

[Max Jakob Maass]

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Right. Completely forgot to mention: The Server location is germany.

Max

On 27.03.2014 19:59, Max Jakob Maass wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm a CS Student and part-time polically interested activist from 
> Germany, specializing in privacy and security. I am running a
> server together with a friend, and we are already running a Tor
> Relay [0] that has been active for almost two years with minimal
> interruptions (for example, when our providers network
> infrastructure went offline about a month ago. sigh).
> 
> Seeing the situation in turkey, I finally decided to also mirror
> the tor website. So, feel free to add the following to your list:
> 
> HTTP dist/:    http://mirror.velcommuta.de/tor/dist/ HTTP website:
> http://mirror.velcommuta.de/tor/ HTTPS dist/:
> https://mirror.velcommuta.de/tor/dist/ HTTPS website:
> https://mirror.velcommuta.de/tor/
> 
> The SSL CA is StartCom / StartSSL. Certificate Fingerprints: SHA1:
> E1:29:6D:B5:0F:C8:8E:BA:57:41:DA:0B:FA:71:C2:E7:88:68:28:9E SHA256:
> 63:29:C9:E5:AA:AB:74:78:D4:FB:87:5E:40:C1:25:5A:3D:62:7B:C7: 
> 12:89:45:B6:E4:D8:F9:C6:97:AB:C8:F3 SHA512:
> A5:1B:AB:E8:B3:37:78:97:1A:77:07:D5:E8:32:C6:8A:CD:88:25:66: 
> 96:8D:AC:4B:D4:49:30:B4:D1:4F:77:6C:AF:C0:5E:76:02:BC:F5:D5: 
> 99:70:B8:E5:2F:3C:0D:EB:9D:AB:29:0D:FF:59:97:59:A4:DE:3F:04: 
> 7A:C1:EA:8E (in case anyone wants to check, the up-to-date cert
> fingerprints can always be found at [1], signed by my PGP key [2])
> 
> The mirror is reachable using IPv4 and IPv6.
> 
> Two questions: 1. Is it desirable to force SSL connections using a
> .htaccess file, or should I avoid that, as some countries will
> terminate / track SSL connections? 2. Would it make sense to also
> make the mirror available as a hidden service, so people already
> using Tor can get new versions by downloading them from a hidden
> service? As that would entail almost zero extra work, I would be
> perfectly willing to add the few lines to my torrc to make that
> possible.
> 
> Sincerely, Max Maass
> 
> P.S.: If I have missed any pitfalls when configuring the mirror, 
> please let me know.
> 
> [0] 
> http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=f606c4dc0fc5ca80cd6f22ba47702a59cf6987e4
>
> 
[1] https://verify.velcommuta.de/ssl/ssl.txt
> [2] FP: 84C4 8097 A3AF 7D55 189A  77AC 169F 9624 3408 825E 
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