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Old 9th March 2012
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Default What do you think of my OpenBSD Tor Hidden Service?

Internet->Modem->TZ215->OpenBSD Dedicated Firewall Appliance->OpenBSD Tor Hidden Service with either vBulletin/phpBB or SILC

-I'm not too sure whether the SonicWall TZ215 is a vulnerability as it has a subscription based Antivirus
-Can I use TOR to wholly encrypt my OpenBSD system?
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Old 10th March 2012
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On other boards, they told me that this is actually the best setup:
Security is not a hard-&-fast state. It is a finding a level of acceptable risk. Without knowing anything about what your security goals are, it is very difficult to comment on whether your proposed topology meets those needs.
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Personally, relying on a third-party infrastructure (historically with imperfections...) is putting great faith in something in which you have no control.
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Can I use TOR to wholly encrypt my OpenBSD system?
No.
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Old 14th March 2012
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tor doesn't encrypt , it anonymises traffic ..
my curiosity to learn about @Ocicat's, @Jgimmi's, and @carpetsmoker;s respective predilections for anonymy & encryption .. is limitless .. what tool ? what strategy ? I know from earlier posts that all three hackers don't favour security through obscurity nor do they trust tor network .. working with pf is the choice I guess ..
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Old 15th March 2012
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LMAO yessssssssssssssss TOR ENCRYPTS, read more

"Tor aims to conceal its users' identities and their network activity from surveillance and traffic analysis by separating identification and routing. It is an implementation of onion routing, which encrypts and then randomly bounces communications through a network of relays run by volunteers throughout the globe. These onion routers employ encryption in a multi-layered manner (hence the onion metaphor) to ensure perfect forward secrecy between relays, thereby providing users with anonymity in network location."
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Old 15th March 2012
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It is an implementation of onion routing, which encrypts and then randomly bounces communications...
Tor attempts to encrypt packets, but this has no relation to encrypting the fundamental disk. If you believe that Tor will provide you security, let me have physical access to your system, & I will prove the thought otherwise.

OpenBSD does allows portions of secondary store to be encrypted through bioctl(8), but this was not the original question.

As I have referenced elsewhere, Tor's attempt to equate anonymity with privacy is not flawless nor necessarily trustworthy:

http://www.wired.com/politics/securi...urrentPage=all

Likewise, searching through the archives of the OpenBSD project's mailing lists does not show that the project developers there are strong advocates of Tor either. A question you need to answer to yourself is why is this the case?

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Old 15th March 2012
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@Ocicat , thanks for providing the link again ..
<< .... The Tor website even says:
Yes, the guy running the exit node can read the bytes that come in and out there. Tor anonymizes the origin of your traffic, and it makes sure to encrypt everything inside the Tor network, but it does not magically encrypt all traffic throughout the internet.

Tor anonymizes, nothing more. >>

just an off-topic question : is Schneier involved with any of the BSDs projects ?
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Old 15th March 2012
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just an off-topic question...
I think you know the answer to that, daemonfowl.



Using your search engine of choice can help you answer this question as well.
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Old 15th March 2012
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If all you have is information from the exit node, then what are the likelhood that you are going to be able to control or find the originating point of my system?
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Tor anonymizes the origin of your traffic, and it makes sure to encrypt everything inside the Tor network, but it does not magically encrypt all traffic throughout the internet.

Why should I be concerned about "all the traffic on the internet"?

Tor anonymizes, nothing more.

Doesn't your previous statement defeat your current statement?
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Old 15th March 2012
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Hi @feredim-924 !
the first isn't mine but torproject's ..
am I wrong to say that part of what privacy comes to mean is being able to keep one's identity as well as data private over networks .. while you are centered on your pc security , someome else is centered on the privacy of transmitted data over the network .. does it make a sense ?
the last 2 lines of the page :
<< As long as Tor is a magnet for "interesting" traffic, Tor will also be a magnet for those who want to eavesdrop on that traffic -- especially because more than 90 percent of Tor users don't encrypt. >>
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Old 15th March 2012
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Don't encrypt what? Their hard drives?
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My current setup looks like this:
Internet->Modem->Tor Router->OpenBSD Dedicated Firewall Appliance->OpenBSD Gateway->FreeBSD+Hidden/Truecrypt Encrypted Operating System+Hidden/Truecrypt Encrypted File Volume+Virtualization+PHPBB Message Board
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