[tor-relays] Patela: A basement full of amnesic servers

[Osservatorio Nessuno via tor-relays <tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone!

A while back, we announced[1] our project to set up a server facility in 
Italy to host Tor exit nodes. After several weeks of testing, we’re 
excited to share that our first nodes are now in production, running on 
our autonomous system. [2]

Four of these nodes operate diskless thanks to System Transparency [3] 
and Patela [4], a small, pull-based tool we developed to configure exit 
nodes efficiently. To optimize this infrastructure, we’ve worked on 
multiple fronts, including mTLS for nodes authentication, TPM for crypto 
operation and nftables rules.

In this post[5], we’ll explain how the system works, and we’d love to 
hear your thoughts and feedback via the mailing list.

Now that we’ve completed this initial testing phase, our next goal is to 
acquire suitable hardware to increase bandwidth capacity. Stay tuned for 
updates!

Bye

b

[1] - 
https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2024/12/how-to-bgp-from-your-basement-and-other-tales/
[2] - https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS214094
[3] - https://docs.system-transparency.org/st-1.0.0/
[4] - https://github.com/osservatorionessuno/patela
[5] - 
https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/05/patela-a-basement-full-of-amnesic-servers/
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