Re: [tor-relays] Running tor in VPS - keep away snooping eyes

2014-07-02 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/2/2014 9:50 AM, Kali Tor wrote: All, Are there anything special that needs to be done to make sure that Tor nodes running inside VMs (VPS) is protected from snooping eyes? Since there is hardly any data at rest I am assuming not, but then,

Re: [tor-relays] Running tor in VPS - keep away snooping eyes

2014-07-02 Thread Kali Tor
Hi, If you are asking how to secureĀ  your box better, indeed the public IP address list of relays is often scanned and brute forced. That is why I recommend: - - if you run only Tor on that box is best, if not make sure your apps are properly secured (mysql not listening on public IP if

Re: [tor-relays] Bandwidth usage for an established relay node

2014-07-02 Thread Christian Dietrich
(rx / tx / total / avg. rate) - tor only: Jun '14179.69 TiB | 188.55 TiB | 368.24 TiB |1.18 Gbit/s Limited by CPU (Core i5-3570 /w AES-NI), multithreaded tor relay software would help to improve bandwidth utilization. Am 01.07.2014 23:24, schrieb Tom van der Woerdt: Hi Kali, It

Re: [tor-relays] Running tor in VPS - keep away snooping eyes

2014-07-02 Thread grarpamp
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Kali Tor kalito...@yahoo.com wrote: I have done all that, so covered on that aspect. Was wondering if disk encryption and use of something like TRESOR would be useful? The private keys for the node are sensitive, and even the .tor/state file for the guard nodes

Re: [tor-relays] Running tor in VPS - keep away snooping eyes

2014-07-02 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/2/2014 2:46 PM, Kali Tor wrote: Hi, If you are asking how to secure your box better, indeed the public IP address list of relays is often scanned and brute forced. That is why I recommend: - - if you run only Tor on that box is

Re: [tor-relays] FYI: Tor-Ops Meeting in Vienna

2014-07-02 Thread Geri
What a pity, that i have heard so late from the meeting. I would really love to attend but im not sure if i can make it tomorrow. As im operating a few guards this is in very high interest of me. I also had some conversations with some guys regarding an austrian tor organisation which i would love

Re: [tor-relays] FYI: Tor-Ops Meeting in Vienna

2014-07-02 Thread Elrippo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Same from here. If I would have known earlier, I would have booked me a Ticket! But I got the fqdn! Is there a funding also to participate? On 02. Juli 2014 19:24:38 MESZ, Geri toxir...@gmail.com wrote: What a pity, that i have heard so late from

Re: [tor-relays] FYI: Tor-Ops Meeting in Vienna

2014-07-02 Thread Elrippo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Provide me your PGP key, than we can talk :) On 02. Juli 2014 21:27:49 MESZ, Martin Kepplinger mart...@posteo.de wrote: Am 2014-07-02 21:06, schrieb Elrippo: Same from here. If I would have known earlier, I would have booked me a Ticket! But I

Re: [tor-relays] Why is UFW bllocking allowed TOR traffic?

2014-07-02 Thread Christopher Sheats
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jeff On 06/22/2014 12:43 PM, Jeff Odell wrote: I was monitoring UFW today and noticed that it was periodically blocking allowed TOR traffic. any ideas why from those with more experience than I? toradmin@IrvineTorExit:~$ sudo ufw status

[tor-relays] rejected hit from China

2014-07-02 Thread Larry Brandt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today my router blocked two hits from Chinese server 218.77.79.43:59762 to my 68.66.154.214:21. I don't listen to port 21. I don't listen to 21. Should I take some action? Is this normal or academic or...? glowworm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [tor-relays] rejected hit from China

2014-07-02 Thread Daniel Case
Sounds like fairly typical background noise to me. Null route the IP if you're concerned but it's probably a zombie in someone's botnet or a chinese user trying his luck. If your IP is listed publicly on tor, expect to be probed every now and then. On 3 July 2014 04:14, Larry Brandt