Tor load averages, openssl performance and misc related questions -amd64-freebsd

[mick]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:51:58 -0500
Andrew Lewman <andrew at torproject.org> allegedly wrote:

> > I would like to be able to connect to the machine directly myself,
> > to hop onto the tor network,
> > and this seems the place to do so. What vulnerabilities does one
> > open up though by allowing anyone to connect to that? 
> 
> If your proxy is found by others, you'll have a lot of new friends
> using it. ;)  An alternative is to run a tor client on your local
> machine, setting up your relay IP:port as a bridge.  Then your first
> hop is into your own Tor relay.

Or, since you already run ssh on the tor node you could tunnel your
requests to the tor node over ssh - see tyranix's description of how
to do this on the wiki at
https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/SshPortForwardedTor
 
I find this works well for me. (I use a different browser on my local
client system when I want to connect through tor. That browser is as
dumb as possible and uses the local ssh listener as its proxy.)

Mick

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