[tor-relays] Traceroute measurement from Tor relays

2013-10-23 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Tor relay operators, We could use your help in a pilot project to improve Tor security. As you may be aware, the anonymity of a connection over Tor is vulnerable to an adversary who can observe it in enough places along its route. For example,

Re: [tor-relays] Traceroute measurement from Tor relays

2013-10-23 Thread David Carlson
On 10/23/2013 10:09 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: Hello Tor relay operators, We could use your help in a pilot project to improve Tor security. As you may be aware, the anonymity of a connection over Tor is vulnerable to an adversary who can observe it in enough places along its route. For

Re: [tor-relays] Traceroute measurement from Tor relays

2013-10-23 Thread Aaron Hopkins
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Karsten Loesing wrote: As you may be aware, the anonymity of a connection over Tor is vulnerable to an adversary who can observe it in enough places along its route. Are you trying to work backward to physical-layer chokepoints, like how the inter-contentinal network

Re: [tor-relays] Traceroute measurement from Tor relays

2013-10-23 Thread grarpamp
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Aaron Hopkins li...@die.net wrote: On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Karsten Loesing wrote: Basically the experiment does traceroutes to three groups: all routable IP prefixes, all Tor relays, and then all /24 subnets. Based on my read of your input data, these will run

Re: [tor-relays] minimum useful ram

2013-10-23 Thread I
Gordon, Thanks. To see if it was possible just now I set up an obfsproxy bridge as best I could but it failed to download properly. I reinstalled Ubuntu 11.10 64 and free -m brought this.. total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 256 38

Re: [tor-relays] minimum useful ram

2013-10-23 Thread Joshua Datko
I would recommend the BeagleBone Black. It's only $10 more than the Pi and it runs actual Debian and the tor development debs work out of the box. It's also has a 1GHz processor and 512MB RAM. My uptime is 45 days right now. My bandwidth settings (below) allows for an always-on relay that