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Zerobox[edit]

Introduction[edit]

ARM board running Tor + YaCy + ZeroNet

Toolchain[edit]

Armbian is a cross-compiling toolchain project that runs on x86 hardware and generates Debian images for ARM boards:

https://www.armbian.com/archive.org github.com/igorpecovnik/lib

Scope[edit]

Can potentially serve as a Tor Bridge and also a seed node for other kinds of P2P services in the future.

  • Bridges don't need the up-time/maintenance/bandwidth of a proper Tor relay.

https://www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/oecdbroadbandportal.htm#map

  • Transports like Snowflake eliminate the need for TCP forwarding configurations. Command line for embedded and headless applications is planned. [1]

Usability[edit]

  • A SSH/VNC server listens only on a link local address

that is accessible from their PC directly through an Ethernet connection only:

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/24071/connect-rpi-to-laptop-through-ethernet-cable/24073#24073archive.org

https://pihw.wordpress.com/guides/direct-network-connection/archive.org

  • Does not need an existing network connection to administrate the box.
  • Does not expose the box to SSH attacks on conventional networks.
  • Authenticated HSs can be optionally setup for advanced users who want a secure way to connect to the box remotely.

Other Projects[edit]

Projects of note:

  • Tor-ramdisk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)#Security-focused_operating_systemsarchive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20161129022400/https://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdiskarchive.org

https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-ramdisk.gitarchive.org

Discussion[edit]

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See Also[edit]

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