Hello all,
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
Earlier this week, David Goulet and I got a Bridge Authority up and running in a test network, so perhaps a logical step will be to put the new Bridge Auth into the test network and ensure that it's at least cursorily behaving.
The new Bridge Auth needs a name. Suggestions welcome. :)
Best regards,
Nice :) Enjoy the trippy trip!
On 08/03/2016 11:54 AM, isis agora lovecruft wrote:
The new Bridge Auth needs a name. Suggestions welcome. :)
Bifröst? => bifroest
Yay! Thanks so much for taking this on! Shari
On Aug 3, 2016, at 2:54 AM, isis agora lovecruft isis@torproject.org wrote:
Hello all,
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
Earlier this week, David Goulet and I got a Bridge Authority up and running in a test network, so perhaps a logical step will be to put the new Bridge Auth into the test network and ensure that it's at least cursorily behaving.
The new Bridge Auth needs a name. Suggestions welcome. :)
Best regards,
♥Ⓐ isis agora lovecruft _________________________________________________________ OpenPGP: 4096R/0A6A58A14B5946ABDE18E207A3ADB67A2CDB8B35 Current Keys: https://fyb.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt _______________________________________________ tor-project mailing list tor-project@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-project
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 5:54 AM, isis agora lovecruft isis@torproject.org wrote:
Hello all,
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
Earlier this week, David Goulet and I got a Bridge Authority up and running in a test network, so perhaps a logical step will be to put the new Bridge Auth into the test network and ensure that it's at least cursorily behaving.
The new Bridge Auth needs a name. Suggestions welcome. :)
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Causeway Arch Bowstring BoxGirder CableStayed Cantilever CoveredBridge Suspension Truss Counterweight Bascule Pylon
Nick Mathewson:
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 5:54 AM, isis agora lovecruft isis@torproject.org wrote:
Hello all,
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
Earlier this week, David Goulet and I got a Bridge Authority up and running in a test network, so perhaps a logical step will be to put the new Bridge Auth into the test network and ensure that it's at least cursorily behaving.
The new Bridge Auth needs a name. Suggestions welcome. :)
Whispermaphone ConeOfSilence TransomWindow TapCode
PonteVecchio GreatBelt Chengyang Brooklyn StariMost SiOSePol PonteDiRialto GoldenGate Rolling Arkadiko Asbru Himinbjorg Trollbridge SteelAndAir
Causeway Arch Bowstring BoxGirder CableStayed Cantilever CoveredBridge Suspension Truss Counterweight Bascule Pylon
Oooh I love a theme!
I suggest Bifröst, the burning rainbow bridge that connects earth (Midgard) and heaven (Asgard) in Norse mythology. GUYS IT'S A MYTHICAL FLAMING RAINBOW THAT YOU USE TO GET TO HEAVEN.
Alison
Nick Mathewson:
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 5:54 AM, isis agora lovecruft isis@torproject.org wrote:
Hello all,
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
Earlier this week, David Goulet and I got a Bridge Authority up and running in a test network, so perhaps a logical step will be to put the new Bridge Auth into the test network and ensure that it's at least cursorily behaving.
The new Bridge Auth needs a name. Suggestions welcome. :)
Whispermaphone ConeOfSilence TransomWindow TapCode
PonteVecchio GreatBelt Chengyang Brooklyn StariMost SiOSePol PonteDiRialto GoldenGate Rolling Arkadiko Asbru Himinbjorg Trollbridge SteelAndAir
Causeway Arch Bowstring BoxGirder CableStayed Cantilever CoveredBridge Suspension Truss Counterweight Bascule Pylon
I love these; also (though obvious):
--Ada --SojournerTruth (ran Underground Railroad)
Are there other interesting people we could name it after? It's nice pluck an important person out of obscurity for things like this.
I'd also add that it's inspiring to watch the way the group has approached solving this problem. Thanks, everyone.
Cheers,
Katie
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Kate ailanthus@riseup.net writes:
I love these; also (though obvious):
--Ada --SojournerTruth (ran Underground Railroad)
Are there other interesting people we could name it after? It's nice pluck an important person out of obscurity for things like this.
elysard. an early pseudonym of michael bakunin
"The Reaction in Germany" (1842), Bakunin's first political writings, under the pseudonym "Jules Elysard":
Marietta Baderna -- marietta was the name of a server i used to admin back in the day, we choose it because of a Italian dancer, I quote the explanation:
"Baderna" is a unique word in Brazilian Portuguese which means confusion, disorder, mess. But its origin is peculiar: it served to classify, pejoratively, the noisy followers of an Italian dancer who caused a furore in the country, her name.? Marietta Maria Baderna.
The word that today defines the absence of rules emerged in the late 19th century, when an Italian dance company came to the then capital of the Empire of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. The trip was a form of protest against the political persecution: occupied by Austria, Italy revolutionaries had a consensus to not to promote artistic life as the occupation lasted as a form of protest.
Part of that company, the dancer Marietta Maria Baderna, daughter of doctor and musician Antonio Baderna, would have sought exile in Brazil as 1849. Talented, soon won a legion of fans, admirers both her dance moves as her rebellious spirit and contester . Innovative, she was criticized by introducing lundum elements (Afro-Brazilian dance practiced by slaves) between the steps of classical dance - amid a conservative and slave society.
Marietta Baderna was in Rio de Janeiro in 1851, causing "a certain frisson," according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary. The term "baderna" is associated with her admirers, called "the badernas" which sang Muse's name at the end of their presentations. The choir was frowned upon by society at the time, which associated the noise and unrestrained passion of the fans as something bad.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rEU1tl4K_jw/UbiEvC6VqFI/AAAAAAAATlM/wYZl6F5L0BU/s1...
On 08/03/2016 07:48 AM, micah wrote:
Kate ailanthus@riseup.net writes:
I love these; also (though obvious):
--Ada --SojournerTruth (ran Underground Railroad)
Are there other interesting people we could name it after? It's nice pluck an important person out of obscurity for things like this.
elysard. an early pseudonym of michael bakunin
"The Reaction in Germany" (1842), Bakunin's first political writings, under the pseudonym "Jules Elysard":
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On Aug 3, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Nick Mathewson nickm@freehaven.net wrote:
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 5:54 AM, isis agora lovecruft isis@torproject.org wrote:
Hello all,
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
Earlier this week, David Goulet and I got a Bridge Authority up and running in a test network, so perhaps a logical step will be to put the new Bridge Auth into the test network and ensure that it's at least cursorily behaving.
The new Bridge Auth needs a name. Suggestions welcome. :)
Awesome, Isis!
For the sake of continuity, I dug back into some Tongan mythology. I came up with “Savea" or “Laumua"
See http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-TuvAcco-t1-body1-d1.html http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-TuvAcco-t1-body1-d1.html:
"36. Paepule and Suga went to Savea and said 'reconsider your decision and stop the appointments as Suga was absent.' Savea replied that the appointments had been made and that Lealali had departed with his Tumua and Alataua. 'The Tumua and Alataua which I hold I give to you. I will remain here with my title Laumua.' This was done and the incident is known as the division of Faleali’i.”
Cheers!
Tom
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:05:24AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 5:54 AM, isis agora lovecruft isis@torproject.org wrote:
Hello all,
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
Earlier this week, David Goulet and I got a Bridge Authority up and running in a test network, so perhaps a logical step will be to put the new Bridge Auth into the test network and ensure that it's at least cursorily behaving.
The new Bridge Auth needs a name. Suggestions welcome. :)
All good ideas, both Nick's and other's before and after.
Another suggestion: especially given the intended use, even better than 'coneofsilence' would be 'portableconeofsilence' ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcKHBgZ_QKU for those unfamiliar and willing to look at youtube).
While I do shout that I am in the cone of silence every time someone tries to talk to me from the other room when I'm running water, if we pass over the excellence of Get Smart, then +1 for Moritz's and Alison's 'bifroest' suggestion.
aloha, Paul
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:05:24AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 5:54 AM, isis agora lovecruft isis@torproject.org wrote:
Hello all,
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
Earlier this week, David Goulet and I got a Bridge Authority up and running in a test network, so perhaps a logical step will be to put the new Bridge Auth into the test network and ensure that it's at least cursorily behaving.
The new Bridge Auth needs a name. Suggestions welcome. :)
All good ideas, both Nick's and other's before and after.
Another suggestion: especially given the intended use, even better than 'coneofsilence' would be 'portableconeofsilence' ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcKHBgZ_QKU for those unfamiliar and willing to look at youtube).
While I do shout that I am in the cone of silence every time someone tries to talk to me from the other room when I'm running water, if we pass over the excellence of Get Smart, then +1 for Moritz's and Alison's 'bifroest' suggestion.
aloha, Paul
I don't know what that comedy TV show is, but it's ridiculous and indeed excellent. I'm digging the imaginary scene of you doing dishes, shouting, "I'M IN THE CONE OF SILENCE!" :)
I think so far (as I finish the server set up) that I'm most leaning towards:
- Moritz and Alison's suggestion of Bifröst - Nick's suggestion of GoldenGate
Not sure yet… still open to suggestions! Thanks for all the great ideas so far.
Best regards,
On 14.08.2016, at 01:05, isis agora lovecruft isis@torproject.org wrote:
I think so far (as I finish the server set up) that I'm most leaning towards:
- Moritz and Alison's suggestion of Bifröst
- Nick's suggestion of GoldenGate
Not sure yet… still open to suggestions!
pylon because: the support structure in a certain kind of bridges is called pylon [0] (and because I still find names with ypsilon kinda cool)
golden derived from goldenGate (which btw is a pylon supported bridge), but with less "US" connotation
fabric always a nice name (but it doesn’t really fit here, or does it?)
hope that helps (…) thomas
[0] e.g. in my hometown: http://www.bahnbilder.de/bild/deutschland~e-loks~br-101/588209/101-033-9-hae...
On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:05:53 +0000 isis agora lovecruft isis@torproject.org wrote:
Not sure yet… still open to suggestions! Thanks for all the great ideas so far.
Arnhem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arnhem)
Ludendorff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Remagen)
Am Mittwoch, den 03.08.2016, 09:54 +0000 schrieb isis agora lovecruft:
Hello all,
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
Earlier this week, David Goulet and I got a Bridge Authority up and running in a test network, so perhaps a logical step will be to put the new Bridge Auth into the test network and ensure that it's at least cursorily behaving.
The new Bridge Auth needs a name. Suggestions welcome. :)
Best regards,
Hi,
Zarathustra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster)
Bye, Carolin
Carolin Zöbelein contact@carolin-zoebelein.de writes:
[ Unknown signature status ] Am Mittwoch, den 03.08.2016, 09:54 +0000 schrieb isis agora lovecruft:
Hello all,
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
Earlier this week, David Goulet and I got a Bridge Authority up and running in a test network, so perhaps a logical step will be to put the new Bridge Auth into the test network and ensure that it's at least cursorily behaving.
The new Bridge Auth needs a name. Suggestions welcome. :)
Naming is always the hardest part...
Port-au-Prince: legendary pirate treasure ship sunk off of Tonga
Lata: Melanesian folk tale; also the shipwreck M.V. Lata, Pangaimotu, Tongatapu, in the kingdom of tonga, http://andrewroams.com/wp-content/uploads/Tonga-1-03121.jpg
Nassau - Former Privateer's Republic for 11 years, operated on its "Code of Conduct"
Zephyr The wreck of the Zephyr, resulted in the 1852 drowning of 6 people, including the ship-master and steward, with one woman passenger surviving.
Minerva - the Minerva Reefs, briefly de facto independent in 1972 as the Republic of Minerva, are a group of two submerged atolls located in the Pacific Ocean south of Fiji and Tonga.
Thank you so much for doing this! isabela
On 08/03/2016 02:54 AM, isis agora lovecruft wrote:
Hello all,
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
Earlier this week, David Goulet and I got a Bridge Authority up and running in a test network, so perhaps a logical step will be to put the new Bridge Auth into the test network and ensure that it's at least cursorily behaving.
The new Bridge Auth needs a name. Suggestions welcome. :)
Best regards,
tor-project mailing list tor-project@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-project
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:54:38AM +0000, isis agora lovecruft wrote:
Hello all,
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
Earlier this week, David Goulet and I got a Bridge Authority up and running in a test network, so perhaps a logical step will be to put the new Bridge Auth into the test network and ensure that it's at least cursorily behaving.
Subject to the desire to avoid releasing security-sensitive info that an attacker could use to compromise that authority, it'd be good to have a public writeup of how the server is setup, and what security precautions have been taken to prevent its compromise, including software and hardware security.
I think this would have a lot of value both for Tor project transparency, as well as educational value for the wider community. In the Bitcoin community I'm a part of failures in operating sufficiently secure trusted servers have caused a number of disasters - and are an ongoing risk - so I'd love to be able to point people to the Tor project as an example of good practices.
Equally, in the Bitcoin community some companies are gradually getting better at this - Blockstream as an example will need to setup a number of trusted servers for its Liquid sidechain technology - and I'm sure at least some of those companies would be also willing to make public how they've tackled the challenge of setting up trusted servers.
isis agora lovecruft transcribed 2.9K bytes:
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
So… it actually wasn't to the datacenter, but merely to the darkened basement server room of the Greenhost offices, which Sacha described as "the nicest office in the building!"
I've set up the server, bought two new harddisks and configured RAID, installed an OS on it, and done some preliminary hardening. The server should go to the datacenter early next week, and then we can start the transition. It looks like everything should happen well before the 31 August deadline, so the apocalypse has been averted and there's little reason to freak out.
Best regards,
On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 05:31:26PM +0000, isis agora lovecruft wrote:
I've set up the server, bought two new harddisks and configured RAID, installed an OS on it, and done some preliminary hardening. The server should go to the datacenter early next week, and then we can start the transition. It looks like everything should happen well before the 31 August deadline
Great!
We want to not just get the server up, but also get out new Tor releases, and get some bridges updated.
So as soon as you know your IP address, port, and relay identity fingerprint (and know they won't change), we should open a ticket on trac and start that process going for new Tor stable releases.
As a bonus, we should consider scraping contact info from current bridges, and mail them all to let them know that they'll need to upgrade else they'll go quiet until they do.
--Roger
isis agora lovecruft:
isis agora lovecruft transcribed 2.9K bytes:
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
So… it actually wasn't to the datacenter, but merely to the darkened basement server room of the Greenhost offices, which Sacha described as "the nicest office in the building!"
I've set up the server, bought two new harddisks and configured RAID, installed an OS on it, and done some preliminary hardening. The server should go to the datacenter early next week, and then we can start the transition. It looks like everything should happen well before the 31 August deadline, so the apocalypse has been averted and there's little reason to freak out.
Best regards,
Yay! Is there any way we could put together a fun blog post about this? I think people would be interested.
-Katie
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isis agora lovecruft transcribed 2.9K bytes:
Hello all,
Today, I am very excite to take a field trip (!!) to a datacenter (!!!) with some most excellent folks from Greenhost (DrWhax and Sacha!!!). We will be racking a server and installing an OS on it, and getting it ready to be a new Bridge Authority to replace Tonga.
Earlier this week, David Goulet and I got a Bridge Authority up and running in a test network, so perhaps a logical step will be to put the new Bridge Auth into the test network and ensure that it's at least cursorily behaving.
The new Bridge Auth needs a name. Suggestions welcome. :)
I really liked all the suggestions! I was leaning towards Nick's suggestion of GoldenGate, since that bridge has a lot of personal meaning for me. Ultimately, I decided to go with Moritz' and Alison's suggestion for Bifröst, since what is there not to like about a thing made of rainbows that is on fire?
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/1D8F3A91C37C5D1C4C19B1AD1D0CFBE8BF72D8...
If it's okay, I would like to write up a short blog post anouncing the switch, and thanking Greenhost for the server donation, hosting, and all their awesome help.
Best regards,
tor-project@lists.torproject.org
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