[tor-dev] Tor Cloud maintenance - Question

[Runa A. Sandvik]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Sina Rabbani <sina at redteam.net> wrote:
> On 2014-06-13 08:55, Runa A. Sandvik wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Sina Rabbani <sina at redteam.net> wrote:
>>
> Hi Runa!

Hi Sina,

>> Users need to create a security group in the EC2 web interface and
>> specify which ports their instances will be using. If you randomize
>> the ports used by the Tor Cloud instances, users will have no idea
>> which ports to open.
>
> I think we can just open a range of ports on the Amazon's security
> interface.

You could update the documentation to say that users need to create a
security group with the range X-Y, and make sure the random ports used
by Tor are within that range.

> Also, since Tor and SSH are the only network listening programs,
> we probably don't even need a firewall at all.

All Amazon instances are behind a firewall by default, all you can do
is specify which ports you want to open.

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Runa A. Sandvik