Re: Tor-Ramdisk

[dante <dante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Algenon,

I'm sorry, that was the wrong site!  (For internal college use only).  Try

   ftp://cheshire.dyc.edu/pub/tor-uclibc-ramdisk

of if ftp is a problem

    http://cheshire.dyc.edu/pub/tor-uclibc-ramdisk/

Thanks for alerting me!

At 3.8 MB for the image, imagine every cell phone in the future being a
tor server.

--Tony



algenon flower wrote:
> Hello Dante
>     Are you Mideval Italian?? (No, Just kidding :),  However, no kidding about your efforts to build a RAM only distro that can run as a Tor server. I just tried to access your ftp, but failed. Will try again, it sounds like something I am very interested in. 
>                                                                                                         Algenon
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> dante <dante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   Hi everyone,
>
> A month ago I developed a small, ramdisk only (ie diskless), linux
> system whose only purpose was to run a tor server. The aim of the
> project was to meet the following goals:
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> 1) small footprint - i686 (single or SMP) with 256MB+ RAM
> 2) to run only in ram so nothing survives a reboot
> 3) to do no logging whatsoever at any level
> 4) to be secure - GRSEC hardened kernel
> 5) to run a tor server, allowing for any configuration,
> middle/exit/directory, etc
>
> I suspect such a project might be of interest to other Tor operators.
>
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> I ran a middle-man node for about 20 days with success
> (node-name=RamOnly), but because I compiled statically against GLIBC, I
> broke DNS resolution, and so it would not work as an exit node. I've
> rebuild the image from scratch compiling against UCLIBC and I'm now in
> the testing phase again. I'm running another middle-man/directory
> server (node-name=RamOnlyUCLIBC). Here's the url for the howto and the
> image:
>
> ftp://ddl.dyc.edu/pub/tor-uclibc-ramdisk
>
> The kernel is compiled with support for most 100MB and 1GB NIC cards. 
> Any comments or testers would be much appreciated.
>
> More details:
>
> busybox-1.8.2 - minimally configured, compiled with UCLIBC
> linux-2.6.23.12 patched with Gentoo's hardening patches (GRSEC)
> tor-1.2.19
>
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> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
> Director of Information Technology,
> D'Youville College,
> 320 Porter Ave.
> Buffalo NY, 14201
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