Tor BSD Diversity Project

In a global anonymity network, monocultures are potentially disastrous. A single kernel vulnerability in GNU/Linux impacting Tor relays could be devastating. The project helped foster a stronger Tor network through increasing operating system diversity.

TDP’s project focused on several areas including but not limited to:

Providing relevant “simple English” documentation with translations for Tor operators on BSD systems;

• Relay guides in English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian and Polish;

• Documentation for building “small systems” on both FreeBSD and OpenBSD

• Documentation for Corporate Relays

• OpenBSD chroot how-to

Conducting various promotion activities focused on the BSD community, including enlisting BSD-using commercial entities to run BSD relays with TDP providing assistance;

Updating the equipment on active OpenBSD relays;

Porting Onionshare to OpenBSD;

Porting obfs4proxy to OpenBSD and FreeBSD;

Migrating previous static reporting on the Tor network to JSON to highlight operating system-related diversity.