[tor-dev] Tor Relays on Whonix Gateway

[teor]

> On 17 Oct 2016, at 19:48, juanjo <juanjo at avanix.es> wrote:
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> Interesting... I thought that a Tor client running a relay would actually help its privacy because you can't tell if its a client connection or relay connection…

It depends what sort of privacy you're after.
It provides a certain level of traffic hiding, but it makes the IP address and
uptime/downtime/latency/weird pauses public. We don't recommend it.

T

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> El 17/10/2016 a las 3:04, teor escribió:
>>> On 7 Oct 2016, at 08:11, bancfc at openmailbox.org
>>>  wrote:
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>>> Should Whonix document/encourage end users to turn clients into relays on their machines?
>>> 
>> Probably not:
>> * it increases the attack surface,
>> * it makes their IP address public,
>> * the relays would be of variable quality.
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>> Why not encourage them to run bridge relays instead, if their connection is
>> fast enough?
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