On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:28:13 -0800 Mike Perry <mikeperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thus spake Okhin (okhin@xxxxxxxx): > > > I'm currently trying to find a way to easily spread some > > pre-configured, pre-installed devices embedding a tor-relay. And I > > have some TP Link hardware, the smallest of them being the WR703N > > (http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n). Those devices are > > cheap and handy (can actually run on battery for years,since it does > > not consumes that much power... around 1W/h). > > I hope this reply isn't too discouraging, but I'm somewhat of a > pessimist/hater when it comes to "Let's put a Tor relay on that tiny > computer!" projects. Sure, I guess everybody loves the endorphin rush > from bragging that their phone/wristwatch/fridge is a Tor relay, but > with the current limits on Tor network size, it's unlikely that the > network could support enough of these tiny relays to actually make any > substantial capacity difference, and they may actually harm overall > performance rather than help it. > > As it stands, directory overhead will probably become unmanageable if we > get much more than 10k tor relays in total right now, and perhaps more > importantly queuing theory and experimental results indicate that adding > more slow relays will actually hurt performance more than help[1,2]. > > > I think a super-portable device that can either do transparent Tor > proxying and/or run a hidden service for you are probably both better > use cases for tiny hardware than a full fledged relay, especially if > your goal is to actually have these things see real use. > Thanks, exactly the kind of answers I was looking for. So, not a relay then, I'll go for a transparent proxy then. And the entropy seems ok (at least, I need to do some tricks before generating keys, but sounds manageable from here). Okhin > > [1]. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/pets08metrics.pdf, section 6. > [2]. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1854 > > -- > Mike Perry
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