Consider documenting how to turn Whonix-Gateway into a Tor Relay

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ID: 569
PHID: PHID-TASK-qhozvimkk2sugwwv72rc
Author: HulaHoop
Status at Migration Time: resolved
Priority at Migration Time: Normal

Description

0. Check with TPO if this is a good idea at all.

1. Look for good guides/best practices for configuring Tor relays.

2. Create a wiki page that combines different steps depending on different hypervisors.

Comments

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Patrick

2016-10-07 21:38:23 UTC

Hosting a (private) (obfuscated) bridge or (exit) relay

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Patrick

2016-10-07 21:44:12 UTC

0. Check with TPO if this is a good idea at all.

Do I get better anonymity if I run a relay?

How can we help? | Tor Project | Support

→ “good idea”

How can we help? | Tor Project | Support

→ “bad idea”

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HulaHoop

2016-10-07 22:24:33 UTC

I didn’t mean running everybody as a relay by default. That would be a bad idea because:

• sometimes the users themselves are censored.
• users tend to run compromised PCs.
• very bad up-time.

My goal was to find out if its worth it to TPO to have some Whonix users who do not have these limitations, running relays. I can see no one posted so I assume they think its a dumb question.

Feel free to close this if it doesn;t make sense.

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HulaHoop

2016-10-07 22:26:23 UTC

Oh I see. It is already documented. My bad. closing

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Patrick

2016-10-07 23:37:12 UTC

HulaHoop (HulaHoop):

HulaHoop added a comment.

I didn’t mean running everybody as a relay by default. That would be a bad idea because:

And I didn’t perceive it that way.

• sometimes the users themselves are censored.
• users tend to run compromised PCs.
• very bad up-time.

Yes.

My goal was to find out if its worth it to TPO to have some Whonix users who do not have these limitations, running relays.

Why wouldn’t it be worth?

I can see no one posted so I assume they think its a dumb question.

I didn’t understand that sentence.

Feel free to close this if it doesn;t make sense.

It makes sense, I guess. That’s why there already is a stub in the wiki.
That stub was originally added, because someone asked about it.

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Patrick

2016-10-07 23:40:44 UTC

Did not notice this answer before making my first answer.

HulaHoop (HulaHoop):

Oh I see. It is already documented. My bad. closing

The quality of that article is not very good. At best documented for
VirtualBox. But for other virtualizers it’s only pointers, but not easy
enough.

Specifically in Qubes this is not that simple to set up.

Would have to follow these instructions:

Redirecting…