Thanks to the kind financial donation of @jonah from @triplebit, we've finally turned on our new SiFive HiFive P550 RISC-V Tor exit relay! this is our first ever non- x86-64 CPU.
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B8A3D6836E3DD183653814A399CD9FB93ED9D27D
The board: https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-premier-p550
If you want to help us run more hardware diversity to enhance the Tor network, please get in touch to work out a strategic donation!
Our lead relay engineer @alexhaydock has increased our stateless #Tor exit relay deployment to 96! (+1 because of the new #RISCV bare-metal node, +1 other we redeployed due to a silly spelling error). We're stress testing our three AMD Epyc 7402P servers that use #Proxmox.
Each one of the 96 Tor exit nodes are diskless Unified Kernel Images, 56MB in total size, using @alpinelinux's alpine-make-rootfs with an absolutely bare minimum number of packages. We'll be publishing more about our new architecture and configuration soon.
#AlpineLinux #privacy #anonymity #AntiCensorship #AccessToInformation #TorOps #TorOperators
now up to [944.13 MiB/s = 7.92 Gbps] advertised bandwidth
and we broke into the top 20 exit providers, based on family, and consensus weight
hopefully as a US provider, we can get back into the top 10 again and lessen this Euro-centrism
We are now up to [1112.29 MiB/s = 9.33 Gbps] advertised bandwidth, and more importantly 0.4448% consensus weight.
At 15th, to overtake @flokinet, this might take some time. However, most of our relays currently are less than 2 weeks old, so after 14 days, it's possible we move up in the exit family ranking.
It's clear that adding more relays helps increase "advertised bandwidth" quite a bit. Our actual bandwidth utilization is less. We expect our eventual, peak advertised bandwidth will quickly go beyond our physical limitation of 10 Gbps.
# Evolving Our Tor Relay Security Architecture
https://blog.emeraldonion.org/evolving-our-tor-relay-security-architecture
A new blog post where @alexhaydock goes into some detail showcasing our minimalistic @alpinelinux Tor relays architecture, a threat model, and including a link to our now-public open source "Emerald Relays" orchestration framework.
The past 6 months have proven its success, and now we look forward to phase 2 (read the post!), which we need your help in funding. Emerald Onion is a U.S. 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit, so please consider donating before 31 December! https://emeraldonion.org/donate/
#Tor #TorOps #Privacy #AntiCensorship #Anonymity #Ansible #Proxmox #Terraform #AMD #Epyc #SEVSNP #NonProfit #GivingTuesday
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