Re: [tor-relays] Bandwidth usage and relay anonymity

2013-10-08 Thread Nick 
Hi Raistlin,

> How much bandwidth on average does a Tor gateway eat up in a
> month?

You can set the maximum amount of bandwidth you'd like it to use
in the config file.

> And will that Tor gateway still remain anonymous even if I run
> other 'Public' services on the same server?

The tor relay isn't anonymous - its IP address will be widely 
shared. It's used to keep tor users anonymous. Unless you're 
referring to hidden services, in which case the answer is 'yes', I 
think, as long as you're careful not to leak anything between the 
hidden service and the public ones.

Nick
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Re: [tor-relays] Bandwidth usage and relay anonymity

2013-10-08 Thread Benedikt Gollatz 
On 2013-10-08 23:10, Nick wrote:
>> And will that Tor gateway still remain anonymous even if I run
>> other 'Public' services on the same server?
> 
> The tor relay isn't anonymous - its IP address will be widely 
> shared. It's used to keep tor users anonymous. Unless you're 
> referring to hidden services, in which case the answer is 'yes', I 
> think, as long as you're careful not to leak anything between the 
> hidden service and the public ones.

No, the answer is "no": an attacker will be able to correlate
non-availability periods of the public services and the hidden service
and thus deanonymise the hidden service.

Benedikt
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Re: [tor-relays] Bandwidth usage and relay anonymity

2013-10-08 Thread Raistlin Majere 
Let me try another way of asking that first question .. how much
bandwidth is required for the relay to be useful?

R.M.


On 10/08/2013 05:10 PM, Nick wrote:
> Hi Raistlin,
> 
>> How much bandwidth on average does a Tor gateway eat up in a 
>> month?
> 
> You can set the maximum amount of bandwidth you'd like it to use in
> the config file.
> 
>> And will that Tor gateway still remain anonymous even if I run 
>> other 'Public' services on the same server?
> 
> The tor relay isn't anonymous - its IP address will be widely 
> shared. It's used to keep tor users anonymous. Unless you're 
> referring to hidden services, in which case the answer is 'yes', I
>  think, as long as you're careful not to leak anything between the
>  hidden service and the public ones.
> 
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Re: [tor-relays] Bandwidth usage and relay anonymity

2013-10-09 Thread Nick 
Quoth Raistlin Majere:
> Let me try another way of asking that first question .. how much
> bandwidth is required for the relay to be useful?

Search the mailing list archives for guidance on that. IIRC 
something like 50KiB/s is a useful minimum, but I may be 
misremembering.
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Re: [tor-relays] Bandwidth usage and relay anonymity

2013-10-09 Thread Lunar 
Raistlin Majere:
> Let me try another way of asking that first question .. how much
> bandwidth is required for the relay to be useful?

See “Is it worth running a relay on a home broadband connection?” in


Roger Dingledine drew the cut [23]: “at this point if you‘re at least
800kbit (100KBytes/s) each way, it‘s useful to be a relay.”

[23] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-July/002255.html

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Re: [tor-relays] Bandwidth usage and relay anonymity

2013-10-09 Thread krishna e bera 
On 13-10-09 12:24 PM, Lunar wrote:
> Raistlin Majere:
>> Let me try another way of asking that first question .. how much
>> bandwidth is required for the relay to be useful?
> 
> See “Is it worth running a relay on a home broadband connection?” in
> 
> 
> Roger Dingledine drew the cut [23]: “at this point if you‘re at least
> 800kbit (100KBytes/s) each way, it‘s useful to be a relay.”
> 
> [23] 
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-July/002255.html

The other half of that answer to an FAQ is, for those who dont have that
sort of bandwidth to share, it is still worthwhile to run a bridge.
Bridges are supposed to be lesser known and have lower consequences to
the network if one of them is exposed, but can be life-saving to Tor
users who need one.





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