[tor-talk] Tor security on EC2

Marco Gruß kork at kork.dyndns.org
Sun Feb 5 03:00:39 UTC 2012


Hello,

On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 18:15:13 -0800, Damian Johnson wrote:
>> Tor people, is there some kind of "automagic family"
>> for EC2 nodes?
> Not at present. However, Tor Cloud is only bridge instances so a
> family wouldn't matter (they're only used for the first hop).

Ah, good point.
There are quite a few active non-bridge nodes though.
I seem to recall that Tor automagically "families" nodes from the
same /16; maybe that code could be expanded to family EC2 nodes
from the same availability zone. That might be a moving target
though...

Marco


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