Tor-ramdisk 20141022 released

Following the latest and greatest exploit in openssl, CVE-2014-3566, aka the POODLE issue, the tor team released version 0.2.4.25.  For those of you not familiar, tor is a system of online anonymity which encrypts and bounces your traffic through relays so as to obfuscated the origin.  Back in 2008, I started a uClibc-based micro Linux distribution, called tor-ramdisk, whose only purpose is to host a tor relay in hardened Gentoo environment purely in RAM.

While the POODLE bug is an openssl issue and is resolved by the latest release 1.0.1j, the tor team decided to turn off the affected protocol, SSL v3 or TLS 1.0 or later.  They also fixed tor to avoid a crash when built using openssl 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or 1.0.1j, with the ‘no-ssl3’ configuration option.  These important fixes to two major components of tor-ramdisk waranted a new release.  Take a look at the upstream ChangeLog for more information.

Since I was upgrading stuff, I also upgrade the kernel to vanilla 3.17.1 + Gentoo’s hardened-patches-3.17.1-1.extras.  All the other components remain the same as the previous release.

i686:
Homepage: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdisk
Download: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdisk-downloads

x86_64:
Homepage: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-x86_64-ramdisk
Download:  http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-x86_64-ramdisk-downloads

 

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