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Hello everyone, For those not familiar, tor-ramdisk is an i686 uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes security and privacy. Security is enhanced by employing a hardened environment, and privacy is enhanced by turning off logging at all levels so that even the Tor operator only has access to minimal information. Finally, since everything runs in ephemeral memory, no information survives a reboot, except for the Tor configuration file and the private RSA key, which may be exported/imported by FTP. Release 20090105 is a minor update release. Since tor-ramdisk follows stable Tor, we are following their upgrade to tor-0.2.0.32 to accomodate the bugfixes and new features. We also took this opportunity to upgrade the kernel to Gentoo's 2.6.25-hardened-r11 to keep up with their changes, although none that we know of effect tor-ramdisk. Finally we also made a minor fix to the setup script which is the main menu run on tty1. Since ntpd is started from init on tty3 before networking is configured and brought up, it doesn't reach any servers and just sits there. When networking is up, ntpd stays stuck and needs to be restarted. Previously one would do so manually by switching to tty3 with Alt-F3 and hitting ctrl-C. With 20090105, ntpd is automatically restarted whenever the networking is reconfigured to make sure it updates to its new environment. We still recommend checking by switching to tty3 and seeing ntpd's log output and making sure that time is well synchronized. As with all releases, this one is tested in a virtual environment and in the wild. Node "simba" has been running 20090105 for about a week as a relay only node with no problems. As a side note: there has been lost of discussion of putting tor on ARM and MIPS processors lately and so work is now underway to port tor-ramdisk to more router specific boards. Homepage: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdisk Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Chair IT D'Youville College Buffalo NY, 14201 <http://freshmeat.net/redir/tor-ramdisk/74741/url_homepage/tor-ramdisk> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkliWGYACgkQl5yvQNBFVTX9XwCfXwEdn9jL0kdoOkRRxibSITFH DHQAmQG8G0DXP7PDe2qS9O1F4wBMcfAS =iJd+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----