[tor-talk] Tor security on EC2

2012-02-04 Thread Marco Gruß
Hello there, with https://cloud.torproject.org/ actively promoting it, I have been thinking about Tor vs. EC2 for a while. Since at least Amazon's US datacenters are most certainly under US jurisdiction, it might be possible for LEA to obtain the private keys of EC2 tor nodes. Snapshotting the c

Re: [tor-talk] Tor security on EC2

2012-02-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Marco Gruß wrote: > with https://cloud.torproject.org/ actively promoting it, > I have been thinking about Tor vs. EC2 for a while. I'm unqualified to say anything about the specific questions wrt VM system security... but I thought it might be worthwhile to offer

Re: [tor-talk] Tor security on EC2

2012-02-04 Thread Damian Johnson
> Tor people, is there some kind of "automagic family" > for EC2 nodes? Not at present. However, Tor Cloud is only bridge instances so a family wouldn't matter (they're only used for the first hop). ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Tor security on EC2

2012-02-04 Thread Marco Gruß
Hello, On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:35:04 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: I'm unqualified to say anything about the specific questions wrt VM system security... but I thought it might be worthwhile to offer a bit of caution related to risk saliency. Whatever risks you decide exist in EC2 here probably

Re: [tor-talk] Tor security on EC2

2012-02-04 Thread Marco Gruß
Hello, On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 18:15:13 -0800, Damian Johnson wrote: Tor people, is there some kind of "automagic family" for EC2 nodes? Not at present. However, Tor Cloud is only bridge instances so a family wouldn't matter (they're only used for the first hop). Ah, good point. There are quite a

Re: [tor-talk] TBB Users: We Need New Directions on Torifying Software! Solution Required!

2012-02-04 Thread cgp 3cg
On 2 February 2012 17:52, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: > On 2/2/12 5:59 AM, m...@tormail.net wrote: >> This is a repost of important question NOT solved last month. >> >> Please solve! >> >> This page: >> >> Torifying software HOWTO: >> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHO