On 06/24/2009 01:41 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote:

On 06/24/2009 11:44 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:

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Speaking about guerilla, http://www.google.com/search?q=sheevaplug would seem like an ideal throwaway Tor appliance. With Bluetooth or WLAN dongles even casting a small (or long-distance, with suitable directional aerials) wireless cloud.

The Fonera 2 might be a candidate platform. Half the price, 32MB RAM, built-in wifi, support for 3g modems. IIRC, somebody already did a tor mod for the first version.

In general, we encourage people to work on these types of ports of Tor. We will work with you and help you turn this into a reality. However, be aware that it takes work, research, and effort to get tor to work correctly on these platforms. I'm sure there are a list of features "micro-environments" would need to have in Tor to make everything work better. We'd love to have the help and your experience in turning this into a reality. We have the beginnings of a certification program in place, so an end-user/customer can tell if this is really tor, works with the current tor network, is a solid design as good as Tor, or is complete bunk and merely includes the Tor tarball to say "uses Tor!" for their marketing purposes. However, coming up with the idea, and then punting all of the next steps to the Tor Project doesn't work too well. I have a list of platforms that people have stated, "If you can turn Tor into an appliance on device X, we'll sell it for you and donate x% back to you quarterly." These platforms include: fonera2, embedded linux variants, polar cloud's tomato, sheevaplugs, bug lab's modules, openwrt, ddwrt, windows ce, windows xp embedded, and the list goes on. In conversations with the requesters, they want: Step 1) Generate an idea. Step 2) Wait for Tor Project to do the technical work. Step 3) Profit! If only it were that easy. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identica/Twitter: torproject ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE