> I am working on a project to create very small Tor nodes on embedded > devices connected over LTE or 3G. since you are concerned about bw usage I assume you talk about tor clients not relays. > I have it working fine with OpenWRT and > just 128MB of RAM, but the main issue is now the amount of data needed to > download the consensus. The consensus files appear to be around 2.3MB at > the moment and I think the default is to re-download every 3 hours, so > that's 18.4MB/day or 552MB/month. Is there any way to reduce this while > still maintaining good citizenship on the Tor network? Are there any > recommended options for low-bandwidth nodes? There is an ongoing effort to significantly reduce the bw overhead for tor clients on metered networks. Some improvements are supposed to land in tor 0.3.1.x. Relevant proposals: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/140-consensus-diffs.txt https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/274-rotate-onion-keys-less.txt https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/275-md-published-time-is-silly.txt https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/276-lower-bw-granularity.txt https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/277-detect-id-sharing.txt https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/278-directory-compression-scheme-negotiation.txt -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu https://twitter.com/nusenu_
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