[tor-relays] Storing ed25519_master_id_secret_key[_encrypted] on a smartcard?

2023-02-22 Thread telekobold
_encrypted] on a smartcard or hardware token like a Nitrokey or Yubikey? This would even be more secure than storing it on a "normal" USB device. Unfortunately I have not found much about this on the internet. Kind regards telekobold [1] https://support.torproject.org/relay-operators

Re: [tor-relays] Storing ed25519_master_id_secret_key[_encrypted] on a smartcard?

2023-03-05 Thread telekobold
After being encouraged in today's relay operators meetup to follow up on this: Anyone who has experiences with that? On 21.02.23 13:18, telekobold wrote: > Dear fellow relay operators, > > currently, I'm operating a Tor relay (Middle/Guard) and a Tor Bridge. > > Offlin

Re: [tor-relays] new exit relay

2023-04-11 Thread telekobold
Hi, please also note the corresponding blogpost from arma (Roger Dingeldine): https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay/ Kind regards telekobold On 10.04.23 07:14, Sandro Auerbach wrote: > As long as your configuration is correct, it still has to go through the > warm-up phas

[tor-relays] Configuring key expiration warning messages?

2023-05-22 Thread telekobold
implement something like this myself)? Kind regards telekobold ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

[tor-relays] Question regarding bandwidth ratio on bridges.torproject.org and a few further, small, (probably related) questions

2023-07-05 Thread telekobold
quot; is displayed under distribution mechanisms at metrics.torproject.org, which means that apparently the bridge is no longer distributed. What could be the reason that the distribution mechanism suddenly changed? Kind regards telekobold ___ tor-relay

[tor-relays] Wrong "first seen" flag for bridges at metrics.torproject.org

2023-07-17 Thread telekobold
t seems to correspond to the penultimate signing key renewal. Has anyone observed similar behavior for its relay? (I found it meaningful to first ask here before creating an issue at [*]). [*] https://gitlab.torproject.org/hiro/onionoo/-/issues Kind regards,

Re: [tor-relays] Help Turkmens to bypass Internet censorship: run an obfs4 bridge!

2023-07-22 Thread telekobold
, but I would have expected it to be close to zero all along given the reports. The number of clients directly connected to Tor seems to be even comparable to the number of clients connected via bridges for the last months [2]. Kind regards telekobold [1] https://metrics.torproject.org

Re: [tor-relays] Help Turkmens to bypass Internet censorship: run an obfs4 bridge!

2023-07-23 Thread telekobold
Hi Gus, thank you for the clarification. Kind regards telekobold On 22.07.23 17:12, gus wrote: Hi, Great question. First, it is important to highlight that sometimes censorship is not implemented uniformly across all ISPs in a country. For example, see Tor Metrics in Russia: - https

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

2023-08-03 Thread telekobold
your relay is publicly known anyway, it also doesn't matter as much as with a bridge if the relay is running at a cloud provider (e.g. regarding the situation in Turkmenistan). The disadvantage is, of course, less diversity in the number of networks in which the relays are distributed. Kin

[tor-relays] Meetup @ CCCamp 2023

2023-08-10 Thread telekobold
t the planned meetup in the Fahrplan [*]. Is there already more detailed information about where and when? Kind regards telekobold [*] https://events.ccc.de/camp/2023/hub/camp23/en/fahrplan ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-relays] Metrics

2023-09-06 Thread telekobold
no connection is established. So, where is the advantage on additionally providing the fingerprint and the obfs4 certificate when connecting to Tor (I can imagine that it has something to do with authenticity)? And how can one do that using the Tor software respectively the Tor browser bun

Re: [tor-relays] Metrics

2023-09-07 Thread telekobold
d the "complete bridge line"[1]. cheers, Gus [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/130 thank you for the clarification! To be honest, I indeed confused "ORPort" and "obfs4port" for a moment. Kind regards telekobold __

[tor-relays] Quick bugfix sharing regarding obfs4 malfunctioning

2023-09-07 Thread telekobold
o I didn't want to set it to something else). Kind regards telekobold [1] http://xmrhfasfg5suueegrnc4gsgyi2tyclcy5oz7f5drnrodmdtob6t2ioyd.onion/relay/setup/bridge/debian-ubuntu/ ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Metrics

2023-09-07 Thread telekobold
On 07.09.23 12:43, Anonforpeace via tor-relays wrote: What is the "complete" bridge line? Bridge obfs4 : cert= iat-mode=0 where PORT is the obfs4 port, not the ORPort. (When using IPv6, ADDRESS> must be in []). See also https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/post-install/ __

[tor-relays] Does Tor itself estimate how it can run as quota-utilizing as possible?

2023-10-01 Thread telekobold
ing connections. So apparently Tor learned from my behavior and calculated itself when to turn itself off and on again in order to use as much quota as possible based on the bandwidth used and/or some other metrics so I don't have to do this manually in future? Kind regards telekobold _

Re: [tor-relays] Does Tor itself estimate how it can run as quota-utilizing as possible?

2023-10-01 Thread telekobold
ement "$F62DF76750" while parsing a node family. Oct 01 18:09:11.000 [warn] Bad element "$86A" while parsing a node family. Kind regards telekobold On 01.10.23 20:16, trinity pointard wrote: Hi, When using AccountingMax, tor tries to guess how long in will take for it to u

[tor-relays] Tor relay operator meetups

2023-12-18 Thread telekobold
Hi, will there be a Tor relay operators meetup @37C3 [*]? Also, there were apparently no meetups in November and December this year? Kind regards telekobold [*] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/infos/startpage.html ___ tor-relays mailing list tor

Re: [tor-relays] Directory authorities not giving weight to a relay

2024-06-03 Thread telekobold
role. I'm also using different mail addresses in the contact info fields of my relays and on this mailing list for about one and a half year. Kind regards telekobold ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torp

Re: [tor-relays] Archive key from deb.torproject.org was renewed!

2024-08-02 Thread telekobold
k of the TLS certificate of torproject.org. If the TLS connection would be somehow corrupted at the moment where one executed the wget command an attacker could corrupt the whole relay, according to my understanding. Or do I have an error in my thinking here? Kind regards telekobold