On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:35:42PM +0100, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
- "Advertised Bandwidth 3.3 MB/s", what does it mean and can it be
increased?
As we do not set any advertised bandwidth in our configuration, the value in Atlas is the bandwidth observed by the network. We are still in a ramp-up phase and going to continue being so for until approximately the end of 2014. Read https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay for more. We do not plan to set an bandwidth limit at this point, either in the Tor configuration or externally, in our network.
- I see in puppet that there is at least some logging enabled. What is
being logged and why? "The best policy is to keep no logs." https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/OperationalSecurity#MinimizeDataRetention
What logs are you referring to? If you're referring to "Log notice /var/log/tor/tor.log" then this just logs statistics, nothing else. torrc's manpage says on the matter: "[w]e advise using "notice" in most cases, since anything more verbose may provide sensitive information to an attacker who obtains the logs". We do not keep traffic/usage logs in any way nor are we planning to.
Faidon