Re: [tor-relays] CLI tool like Atlast

2014-06-18 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Hi, I'm working on that. The onion.py script in OnionPy [1] has some rudimentary atlas-like functionality that I hope I can soon make complete as soon as I find some free time. If you know python, it shouldn't be too hard to do that, PR's welcome! Best, Luke [1] https://github.com/duk3luk3/o

Re: [tor-relays] CLI tool like Atlast

2014-06-19 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Hi, onion.py is in the bin/ folder. If you run "sudo python setup.py install", it will be installed globally, or you can run it directly from the source folder, as it says in the readme - |"PYTHONPATH=. python bin/onion.py"|. Best Luke signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: [tor-relays] Slow relay speeds for Australian geographic location(s)

2014-10-11 Thread Lukas Erlacher
As always, https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay is relevant. Best, Luke ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Tor and Freenode

2015-01-24 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Hello, I recommend you reread freenode's explanations carefully. > If you do want to be a Tor exit node and still use freenode, you will > have to configure your exit policy to block all of the IRC ports > we use, in addition > to ports 80 and 443

Re: [tor-relays] Tor and Freenode

2015-01-24 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Am 24.01.2015 um 14:30 schrieb Lukas Erlacher: I recommend you reread freenode's explanations carefully. I did, and the still open question is, doesn't mean restricting ports 80, 443 and the IRC ones make running the relay a pretty useless operation? Without all these ports, whic

Re: [tor-relays] Tor and Freenode

2015-01-24 Thread Lukas Erlacher
ve learned more about this. (And yes, discovering the knowledge is harder than it should be; I recommend you get on #tor on oftc to talk to people.) Best, Luke On 01/24/2015 04:17 PM, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 24.01.2015 um 15:45 schrieb Lukas Erlacher: > Completely disabling exit operatio

[tor-relays] DDoS on middle nodes?

2016-04-18 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Hi, my hoster notified me about nullrouting due to packet floods (?) against two diffferent relays on April 12 and April 17. Has this been happening to other people in the same time frame? Best, Luke ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torp

Re: [tor-relays] new relays

2013-08-22 Thread Lukas Erlacher
You cannot make Tor resistant to "evil usage". Evil usage is defined by your personal morals on one level, and by governments via the laws the enact and prosecute on the other level. Tor's raison d'etre is to allow people to use the internet freely when their personal morals and their government's

Re: [tor-relays] ExitPolicy reject *:* ships commented out?

2013-09-07 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Tor-arm has a config feature. The arm developer is actually planning to remove it because nobody is using it. I think it's a wonderful tool, but it has some gotchas and kinks to be worked out. Luke 2013/9/7 Thomas Hand : > There was a version of Tor released in the development repos that included

[tor-relays] Tor 0.2.4.17-rc on arch armv6

2013-09-13 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Hello to everyone with arm hardware and arch linux, I just set up Tor 0.2.4.17-rc on a raspberry pi and I want to share what I did just to create a piece of documentation that might be helpful for others. I got tor-git from the AUR[1], modified it to fetch 0.2.4.17-release instead of master, and b

Re: [tor-relays] Relay security, re: local network

2013-09-25 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Running a tor relay will increase your attack surface vis-a-vis the internet in the same way that running any other internet-facing service that could be owned (via, say, a buffer overflow) would. In general, it is also common that once somebody has taken over a machine inside your internal networ

Re: [tor-relays] hardware accelerated crypto

2013-10-02 Thread Lukas Erlacher
> The RasPi is nice but it's also not terribly powerful. It definitely > has its limits. For example, I found out the hard way last weekend > that trying to run an Etherpad-Lite on a RasPi is a great way to run > one into the ground... I have a RasPi Model B Rev 2 running etherpad-lite and a Tor

Re: [tor-relays] Filtering TOR Non-exit Relay - Just Curious

2013-10-27 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Middle nodes don't know the type of traffic. If they have any way to find out, that is a bug that needs to be fixed. End-of. 2013/10/27 Nelson : > Tor Exit Relay have the ability to filter traffic by allowing the > operator make choices based on personal preferences for personal, legal > (ex: coun

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-03 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Let me chime in here in regards to torrents to be perhaps not the devil's, but the radical's advocate. I'm sure everyone here will agree that a good case can be made that copyright laws as they stand today are a perversion of, and counter-productive to, their original stated intention of "advancem

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-03 Thread Lukas Erlacher
> your refusal to pay for content people create. That's a silly smear. > not related to tor That's just plain silly. Did you really enter this thread just to flame? That's also silly. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https:/

Re: [tor-relays] Metrics for assessing EFF's Tor relay challenge?

2014-04-04 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Hello everyone (reply all ftw), On 04/04/2014 07:13 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > Christian, Lukas, everyone, > > I learned today that we should have something working in a week or two. > That's why I started hacking on this today and produced some code: > > https://github.com/kloesing/challenger

Re: [tor-relays] Metrics for assessing EFF's Tor relay challenge?

2014-04-05 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Hi Karsten, On 04/05/2014 09:58 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On second thought, and after sleeping over this, I'm less convinced that we > should use an external library for the caching. We should rather start with a > simple dict in memory and flush it based on some simple rules. That would >

Re: [tor-relays] Metrics for assessing EFF's Tor relay challenge?

2014-04-05 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Hello Nikita, Karsten, On 04/05/2014 05:03 PM, Nikita Borisov wrote: > On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Karsten Loesing > wrote: >> Installing packages using Python-specific package managers is going to >> make our sysadmins sad, so we should have a very good reason for >> wanting such a package.

Re: [tor-relays] Metrics for assessing EFF's Tor relay challenge?

2014-04-05 Thread Lukas Erlacher
On 04/05/2014 04:58 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > Great, your help would be much appreciated! Want to send me a pull > request whenever you have something to merge? > > Alright, so I wrote a few lines and sent you a pull request. Could you please check if that downloads the data you expect? And wh

Re: [tor-relays] Relays vulnerable to OpenSSL bug: Please upgrade

2014-04-08 Thread Lukas Erlacher
On Debian or Ubuntu: service tor stop && rm /var/lib/tor/keys/* && apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade Cheers Luke On 04/08/2014 05:55 PM, Dennis Crawford wrote: > Where is the instructions for this? > > Thanks! > Dennis > > -Original Message- > From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bou

Re: [tor-relays] Metrics for assessing EFF's Tor relay challenge?

2014-04-08 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Hi Kostas, right now, we're coding challenger against what exists in debian wheezy, which means version 0.1.2 of the requests lib using the python-requests package you mentioned, where response.json is correct, and not response.json() to get json content from the response. I'd recommend that i