[tor-talk] Tor on Raspberry Pi

Dave Page grimoire+tor-talk at cultofperf.org.uk
Sat Jul 21 13:00:35 UTC 2012


I've had a bit of a poke around the list archives here but this doesn't seem 
to have been discussed on this list in the last couple of months.

A lot of people want to support Tor but setting up and running a server is a 
bit tricky. I think it'd be good to have a Raspberry Pi distro such that you 
can plug your RaspPi into your Internet connection, stick in an SD card with a 
pre-prepared distribution, and it boots up, uses DHCP and uPNP to get 
networking and portforwarding, and runs a Tor bridge / middle node.

Obviously there's a bit more to it than that - particularly if you wanted it 
to be usable by people on the same LAN - but I think that's a reasonable first 
step.

This seemed like a pretty obvious application of RaspPi to me, so I'm 
wondering whether anybody else is working on it. It's not a million miles away 
from the Torouter project, but it's also quite close to a custom distro of 
Raspian with certain packages preinstalled and configured out of the box.

What do others think?

Cheers,

Dave


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