{"id":104,"date":"2014-09-27T16:35:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T16:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/blueness\/?p=104"},"modified":"2014-09-27T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T16:35:53","slug":"tor-ramdisk-20140925-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/blueness\/2014\/09\/27\/tor-ramdisk-20140925-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Tor-ramdisk 20140925 released"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been blogging about my non-Gentoo work using my drupal site at http:\/\/opensource.dyc.edu\/<\/a>\u00a0 but since I may be loosing that server sometime in the future, I’m going to start duplicating those posts here.\u00a0 This work should be of interest to readers of Planet Gentoo because it draws a lot from Gentoo, but it doesn’t exactly fall under the category of a “Gentoo Project.”<\/p>\n

Anyhow, today I’m releasing tor-ramdisk 20140925.\u00a0 As you may recall from a previous post, tor-ramdisk is a uClibc-based micro Linux distribution I maintain whose only purpose is to host a Tor<\/a> server in an environment that maximizes security and privacy.\u00a0 Security is enhanced using Gentoo’s hardened toolchain and kernel, while privacy is enhanced by forcing logging to be off at all levels.\u00a0 Also, tor-ramdisk runs in RAM, so no information survives a reboot, except for the configuration file and the private RSA key, which may be exported\/imported by FTP or SCP.<\/p>\n

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A few days ago, the Tor<\/a> team released 0.2.4.24 with one major bug fix according to their ChangeLog<\/a>. Clients were apparently sending the wrong address for their chosen rendezvous points for hidden services<\/a>, which sounds like it shouldn’t work, but it did because they also sent the identity digest. This fix should improve surfing of hidden services. The other minor changes involved updating geoip information and the address of a v3 directory authority, gabelmoo.<\/p>\n

I took this opportunity to also update busybox to version 1.22.1, openssl to 1.0.1i, and the kernel to 3.16.3 + Gentoo’s hardened-patches-3.16.3-1.extras. Both the x86 and x86_64 images were tested using node “simba” and showed no issues.<\/p>\n

You can get tor-ramdisk from the following urls (at least for now!)<\/p>\n

i686:
\nHomepage: http:\/\/opensource.dyc.edu\/tor-ramdisk<\/a>
\nDownload: http:\/\/opensource.dyc.edu\/tor-ramdisk-downloads<\/a><\/p>\n

x86_64:
\nHomepage: http:\/\/opensource.dyc.edu\/tor-x86_64-ramdisk<\/a>
\nDownload: http:\/\/opensource.dyc.edu\/tor-x86_64-ramdisk-downloads<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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