Re: [tor-relays] doc/HARDENING Draft

2014-11-30 Thread tor
Hi, On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 08:42:44PM -0500, Libertas wrote: > True, and thanks for the examples. I think the daemons are probably a > better move for those who aren't firewall veterans, as everyone else > would probably be copy-and-pasting firewall configs like the ones you > gave and praying th

Re: [tor-relays] doc/HARDENING Draft

2014-11-27 Thread Garrett DeBoer
Stop Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 27, 2014, at 8:42 PM, Libertas wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > >> On 11/27/2014 07:50 PM, t...@zengers.de wrote: >> And I agree about SSHGuard. I've had a better experience with it, >> and it generally seems like a more carefully

Re: [tor-relays] doc/HARDENING Draft

2014-11-27 Thread Libertas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/27/2014 07:50 PM, t...@zengers.de wrote: > And I agree about SSHGuard. I've had a better experience with it, > and it generally seems like a more carefully developed and more > thoroughly documented project. Strangely, though, most experienced

Re: [tor-relays] doc/HARDENING Draft

2014-11-27 Thread tor
Hi, On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:58:57AM -0500, Libertas wrote: > And I agree about SSHGuard. I've had a better experience with it, and > it generally seems like a more carefully developed and more thoroughly > documented project. Strangely, though, most experienced sysadmins > still use and suggest

Re: [tor-relays] doc/HARDENING Draft

2014-11-25 Thread tor-exit0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/24/2014 4:09 PM, Libertas wrote: > I thought I'd share an initial draft of doc/HARDENING. Please > share any opinions or contributions you have. This was written in a > little more than an hour, so it's still a work in progress. > However, in the

Re: [tor-relays] doc/HARDENING Draft

2014-11-25 Thread tor
Hi, On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 08:58:04PM +0100, tor-ad...@torland.me wrote: > Don't store identity keys on the hard disk. Keep them offliner. Use a ramdisk > for /var/lib/tor/keys/ and copy keys to it via scp before starting your tor > instance. Remove it from the ramdisk after startup. So the key

Re: [tor-relays] doc/HARDENING Draft

2014-11-25 Thread tor-admin
On Monday 24 November 2014 18:09:34 Libertas wrote: > Here's the relevant ticket: > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13703 > > A specific topic of conversation is how much of the advice should be > in the document itself as opposed to linked sources. > > It could also use more O

Re: [tor-relays] doc/HARDENING Draft

2014-11-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Tor Operator wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 06:09:34PM -0500, Libertas wrote: >> Be sure to stay up-to-date using apt-get, and consider using cron-apt to >> automatically update: >> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-uptodate.en.html > > Maybe it a

Re: [tor-relays] doc/HARDENING Draft

2014-11-25 Thread Libertas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thanks for the heads-up about unattended-upgrades, I hadn't heard of that. And I agree about SSHGuard. I've had a better experience with it, and it generally seems like a more carefully developed and more thoroughly documented project. Strangely, th

Re: [tor-relays] doc/HARDENING Draft

2014-11-24 Thread usprey
cron-apt is also a viable option for debians. https://wiki.archlinux.org/ is afaik the best standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom about current linux, always solved my debian-*codename* problems. On 25 November 2014 at 05:29, Tor Operator wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 06:09:34PM -

Re: [tor-relays] doc/HARDENING Draft

2014-11-24 Thread Tor Operator
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 06:09:34PM -0500, Libertas wrote: > Be sure to stay up-to-date using apt-get, and consider using cron-apt to > automatically update: > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-uptodate.en.html Maybe it also worth covering unattended-upgrades package to keep Debian u