Re: [tor-relays] Reimbursement of Exit Operators

2013-09-17 Thread I
Isn't it reimbursement for running a relay? How much Tor uses it is not directly due to the cost. If the relay is set to be used fully as Tor might use it and is not a particularly costly server isn't it of equal value? FREE 3D MARINE A

Re: [tor-relays] Reimbursement of Exit Operators

2013-09-17 Thread Damian Johnson
> Unless maybe stem already does exactly this for us? Yup, stem parses the extrainfo descriptors... https://stem.torproject.org/api/descriptor/extrainfo_descriptor.html#stem.descriptor.extrainfo_descriptor.ExtraInfoDescriptor The only pesky bit is that you'll need to download a lot of descriptor

Re: [tor-relays] Reimbursement of Exit Operators

2013-09-17 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 08:27:57PM +0200, Moritz Bartl wrote: > The recipient share is calculated from the > throughput per relay * country factor It might be worthwhile to make it clearer what "throughput" is here. I hope it's not consensus weight, since that's not really a measure of how much

[tor-relays] Reimbursement of Exit Operators

2013-09-17 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, tl;dr: We want to start reimbursing exit operators end of this month. Partner orgs, please sign the contract! Everyone else, consider becoming a partner. --- In July last year, Roger announced that BBG was interested in funding fast exits. [1] The initial discussion on the mailing list contin

[tor-relays] Traffic shaping on exit nodes (appeasing automated network monitoring systems)

2013-09-17 Thread Philip Paeps
I had a less-than-amusing conversation with my ISP this week about how my Tor exit node was performing "network scans". As far as I can tell, their definition of "network scan" comprises anything from "knocking on the same port on every machine in a /8" to "creating lots of legitimate connections