Re: [tor-relays] Become a Fallback Directory Mirror

2018-01-08 Thread Otheontelth
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>  Original Message 
> Subject: [tor-relays] Become a Fallback Directory Mirror
> Local Time: 21 December 2017 12:50 AM
> UTC Time: 20 December 2017 23:50
> From: teor2...@gmail.com
> To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
>
> Dear Relay Operators,
>
> Do you want your relay to be a Tor fallback directory mirror?
> Will it have the same address and port for the next 2 years?
> Just reply to this email with your relay's fingerprint.
>
> If your relay is on the current list, you don't need to do anything.
>
> If you're asking:
>
> Q: What's a fallback directory mirror?
>
> Fallback directory mirrors help Tor clients connect to the network.
> For more details, see [1].
>
> Q: Is my relay on the current list?
>
> Search [2] and [3] for your relay fingerprint or IP address and port.
> [2] is the current list of fallbacks in Tor.
> [3] is used to create the next list of fallbacks.
>
> Q: What do I need to do if my relay is on the list?
>
> Keep the same IP address, keys, and ports.
> Email tor-relays if the relay's details change.
>
> Q: Can my relay be on the list next time?
>
> We need fast relays that will be on the same IP address and port for 2
> years. Reply to this email to get on the list, or to update the details
> of your relay.
>
> Once or twice a year, we run a script to choose about 150-200 relays
> from the potential list [3] for the list in Tor [2].
>
> Q: Why didn't my relay get on the list last time?
>
> We check a relay's uptime, flags, and speed [4]. Sometimes, a relay might
> be down when we check. That's ok, we will check it again next time.
>
> It's good to have some new relays on the list every release. That helps
> tor clients, because blocking a changing list is harder.
>
> Q: What about the current relay DDoS?
>
> We don't think the DDoS will have much impact on the fallback list.
>
> If your relay is affected, please:
>
> - make sure it has enough available file descriptors, and
> - set MaxMemInQueues to the amount of RAM you have available per tor
> instance (or maybe a few hundred MB less).
>
> We're also working on some code changes. See [5] for more details.
>
> [1]: 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/FallbackDirectoryMirrors
> [2]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/or/fallback_dirs.inc
> [3]: 
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/scripts/maint/fallback.whitelist
> [4]: 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/21564/fallbacks_2017-05-16-0815-09cd78886.log
> [5]: 
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-December/013881.html
>
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Re: [tor-relays] FreeBSD 11.1 ZFS Tor Image

2018-02-27 Thread Otheontelth
Why would it be important to encrypt the storage of your tor server?
For me this  looks like it only complicates things if law enforcement wants to 
take a look at your server and the cloud provider should be able to break the 
encryption relative easy  or can simply  take a memory dump

On 26 February 2018 11:27 PM, Conrad Rockenhaus  wrote:

> > snip 
> >
> > I wonder if people hosting Tor relays in any sort of VPS are doing
> > 
> > filesystem encryption.
> 
> I can tell you on OVH, a basic level VPS (one for $5.00/mo) is not encrypted.
> 
> If a customer is willing to spend $7.00/mo more for an additional partition,
> 
> they will be able to have storage to encrypt the the Tor relay information at
> 
> rest.
> 
> On the Cloud side, you encrypt the primary volume, so all storage is encrypted
> 
> at rest.
> 
> I can't speak of any of the other providers that provide BSD VPSes or BSD
> 
> Cloud Instances.
> 



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