Re: [tor-relays] Bridge with iat-mode=2 very slow

2023-09-28 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
This is to be expected, you get 100kB/s with iat-mode=2, and around 256-1024kB/s with iat-mode=1, however since most sites I load are just HTML/CSS with little pictures, it is no big issue. I would consider taking the speed penalty for more protection (as a research paper also pointed out).

Re: [tor-relays] [Important] A call for more long running bridges, especially with OBFS IAT-Mode set to 1 or 2.

2023-06-18 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
ty for a dubious and poorly understood > > privacy gain > > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2021-February/019370.html > > > I personally leave my bridges as they are, without iat_mode. > > > Best, > > Fran > > > >

Re: [tor-relays] Comcast blocks ALL traffic with tor relays

2023-06-18 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
Regarding web-servers hosting Tor relays, it is much more likely for them to sit behind a CDN such as Cloudflare for DoS protection and delivery optimization. Other services of course, however.. --- Original Message --- xmrk2 via tor-relays schrieb am Sonntag, 11. Juni 2023 um 1:46

[tor-relays] [Important] A call for more long running bridges, especially with OBFS IAT-Mode set to 1 or 2.

2023-05-15 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
Hello dear relay and bridge hosts, recently a paper was published, describing a traffic confirmation attack called DeepCorr, which works against Tor users and as such, also hidden services. The attack allegedly had success rates of up to 96% percent. It is being worked on and listed here as a

[tor-relays] Tor: Possible bug on 0.4.8.9 exit relay.

2023-12-17 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
Hi, while going through journalctl I noticed the following entries from my exit relay and wanted to report this non-fatal assertion. I also host a Guard relay on the same VM and IP, and it did not yet assert that message. The full assert() with the stack-trace is as follows: > Dec 14

Re: [tor-relays] Declining Relay Usage

2023-12-18 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
Hello Likogan (you did not specify a name, so I just took your domain name). First, lets look at issue number one: If your Tor Exit is using ~50% of the entire CPU (VM or dedicated server?) while only routing 6 Mbps, then you are likely not using hardware AES acceleration (aesni). For

Re: [tor-relays] Declining Relay Usage

2023-12-19 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
Please read the code, not only Tor's code, but also OpenSSL's code. Yes, AES is not displayed as engine itself, however, it still does not seem to use aes-ni instructions unless told to initialize engines via the code I deducted. If this proves anything, I ran an Exit Relay in 2013 before my

Re: [tor-relays] Relay data limit

2023-12-22 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
. > > I'll probably remove all limits for January and just see how much traffic > gets transferred. > > --- > Thanks, > Dan > > On Thursday, December 21st, 2023 at 8:04 AM, George Hartley via tor-relays > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org wrote: > > > >

Re: [tor-relays] Tor: tor_bug_occurred_(): Bug: conflux_pick_first_leg: Non-fatal assertion !(smartlist_len(cfx->legs) <= 0) failed. (on Tor 0.4.8.10)

2023-12-22 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
any security, performance or privacy implications, then please maybe just make it a harmless information message. Regards, George On Monday, December 18th, 2023 at 11:12 AM, trinity pointard trinity.point...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > this looks related to TROVE-2023-007 / > ht

Re: [tor-relays] Remove my relay from relay search on Tor Metrics

2023-12-26 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
- Is it possible to immediately remove my relay from relay search on Tor Metrics? No. - If not, when will my relay be removed from the relay list? Generally 7 days after your relay last uploaded it's descriptor. Happy holidays, George On Sunday, December 24th, 2023 at 11:10 AM,

Re: [tor-relays] Relay data limit

2023-12-21 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
Hi Dan, >1 - Is it better for the network if the relay is active 24/7, even if >sometimes it's much slower? Generally according to the relay requirements a relay is considered useful if it can at least route 2MB/s or 16 MBit/s steadily. However, I think you should get away with 1MB/s or 8

Re: [tor-relays] Worse throughput with 0.4.8.x, on a slow CPU

2024-01-09 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
Also, it should not nearly be as frequent, it happens maybe every 30-45 minutes on my two relays (one guard, one exit). Try running Tor natively (you can just move it to a native Linux installation, by preserving the "`keys/ed25519_master_id_secret_key`" and `"keys/secret_id_key`" in your Tor

Re: [tor-relays] Worse throughput with 0.4.8.x, on a slow CPU

2024-01-09 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
Dear Jeff Blum, > Yes, I am seeing something similar on 0.4.8.9 (and potentially earlier > versions as well, not 100% sure when it started). I upgraded to 0.4.8.10 > today hoping it would go away, but I'm seeing it again. Watching in nyx > (screenshot of bandwidth graph attached), reliably

[tor-relays] [To the maintainers of Tor Metrics] Metrics showing erroneous data for my two relays, can somebody responsible please take a look at the issue?

2024-01-11 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
Hello, for about 3 months I have been hosting two Tor relays: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/AF42E6C77196A37F041A1A1E953E51B4656BDC1B https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/7F7D1A5BE88FA7C9358955705AE7AFA61EEDA2B0 After doing system maintenance (mainly upgrading

[tor-relays] Recent Tor versions not reloading config on / ignoring HUP kill signal.

2024-01-15 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
Hi, I think this started with release 0.4.8.10, but both of my Tor relays no longer reload their config when doing for example: - systemctl reload tor@exit Here is the relevant part of the unit file: > [Unit]Description=Anonymizing overlay network for TCP > After=syslog.target

Re: [tor-relays] Remove my relay from relay search on Tor Metrics

2024-01-09 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
7 d a y s. On Monday, January 8th, 2024 at 9:54 AM, 0tpcqovw--- via tor-relays wrote: > I think it's after 30 days it gets automatically removed.  > Malcolm  > > > On Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 15:25 nemeto via tor-relays > wrote: > > > DuckDuckGo did not detect any trackers. > > > > Hi, > >

Re: [tor-relays] [To the maintainers of Tor Metrics] Metrics showing erroneous data for my two relays, can somebody responsible please take a look at the issue?

2024-01-11 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
) Everything else seems fixed. Regards, George On Thursday, January 11th, 2024 at 2:18 AM, George Hartley via tor-relays wrote: > Hello, > > for about 3 months I have been hosting two Tor relays: > > https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/AF42E6C77196A37F041A1A1E9

Re: [tor-relays] Updating tor issue

2024-05-14 Thread George Hartley via tor-relays
Hey there, Debian offers unattended upgrades for specific packages: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades If you follow this sites instructions carefully, then you don't have to worry about updating Tor manually anymore (but you would want to if there is a significant security issue that