Zenaan Harkness: > Lunar: > > Zenaan Harkness: > [â] Sorry, but your message is too long. You should try to ask less questions at the same times, as the answer from one is likely to help you answer the other. I'm jumping to the most obvious ones here. > > TOR_SKIP_LAUNCH was designed for Whonix and Tails use cases. For both > > the tor daemon is started independently of the Tor Browser. For the > > former on a different host and for the latter under a different system > > user. > > My proposed "VPN" scenario is similar to the Whonix concept. I believe it's not. The Whonix Workstation is unable to reach the Internet except by connecting to the tor daemon running on the gateway. To the best of my understanding, with what you describe, the computers that would run the Tor Browser would not be isolated of the network. > When you say "running tor locally", are you referring only to a "local > always-on relay" - eg one connected to ADSL permanently? Or do you > also include in that term, 'running TBB locally on the spot which > creates its own local tor instance'? As in, are you also including in > the term "running tor locally" a "local sometimes-on relay (or > 'private' bridge?)"? When I say ârunning tor locallyâ, I mean running the tor daemon on the computer that will run the Tor Browser. That's how Tor is generally used. The tor daemon takes care of reaching the Tor network and relaying information through it. This is sometimes referred in the literature as an âOnion Proxyâ. This has nothing to do with relaying the traffic of others. I still don't understand why you want to do things differently than just run the Tor Browser and eventually configure Tor to use a bridge. > >> Q2) When connecting to a trusted friend's relay via VPN, [...] > > > > Why would you want to do that instead of using a (private) bridge? > > High-latency, low-bandwidth, only sometimes-on internet connections. Users of high-latency, law-bandwidth, only sometimes-on Internet connections are perfectly able to use bridges. > Also, I am struggling to find a proper definition of 'private bridge' > and what that exactly means and how it actually works. Bridges are unlisted Tor relays, but they are normally part of the bridge database and get distributed to users in need through specific channels (see <https://bridges.torproject.org/>). Private bridges do not record themselves to the bridge database. Their addresses need to be explicitly given by the bridge operator to be used. > >> Q5) When connecting to a trusted friend's relay via the open Internet, > >> is this what's called using the relay as a "bridge"? > > > > Using a relay as a bridge is when you configure a public Tor relay > > instead of an unlisted bridge as one of tor bridges. There are very few > > use cases where it makes sense. See "Bridge" and "UseBridge" in tor(1) > > manual page. > > My point is, the exit relay I installed is a 'public tor relay' - as > in it is not configured as 'private', but is that what you mean? All Tor relays are public as the list of all Tor relays if available to everyone. That's the differences with bridges. The list of all (public) bridges is not available anywhere else than the bridge database. There is no list of all private bridges. There is no such thing as a private Tor relay, except on a test network. -- Lunar <lunar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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