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AS 396507

@emeraldonion@disobey.net

U.S. 501(c)(3) human rights not-for-profit supporting internet privacy infrastructure since 2017. Spoke at DEF CON 26. 100% volunteer run, 100% donation based.

Tor exit relays: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:396507
Tor bridges: https://emeraldonion.org/bridges
Signal proxy: https://signal.tube/#ghostprotocol.net

667 Followers

109 Following

11 Posts

Joined November 02, 2022

Website:

https://emeraldonion.org

Blog:

https://blog.emeraldonion.org

AS 396507 @emeraldonion@disobey.net

· 13mo ago

Replying to

Our lead relay engineer @alexhaydock has increased our stateless #Tor exit relay deployment to 96! (+1 because of the new #RISCV bare-metal node, +1 other we redeployed due to a silly spelling error). We're stress testing our three AMD Epyc 7402P servers that use #Proxmox. Each one of the 96 Tor exit nodes are diskless Unified Kernel Images, 56MB in total size, using @alpinelinux's alpine-make-rootfs with an absolutely bare minimum number of packages. We'll be publishing more about our new architecture and configuration soon. #AlpineLinux #privacy #anonymity #AntiCensorship #AccessToInformation #TorOps #TorOperators

AS 396507 @emeraldonion@disobey.net

· 3mo ago

We are here ⭐️ 96 of the "360 network families (/16) with 2978 exits (2752 visible)" you should add to our our diversity and run more relays (ideally outside of Europe) https://metrics.torproject.org/bubbles.html#network-family-exits-only

metrics.torproject.org

Servers – Tor Metrics

AS 396507 @emeraldonion@disobey.net

· 8mo ago

Looking to interview

"Tor relay operators

Share your experience running and updating your Tor relay with researchers from the University of Namur (Belgium)

Interview of ~30 minutes
At FOSDEM or next week online (voice call or text chat)
In English or French
Audio recorded if the interview is done at FOSDEM or via voice call
No audio recording for text chat interviews For more information or to participate, contact Jules DEJAEGHERE"

(see image for contact details)

#fosdem #fosdem2026 #fosdem26

AS 396507 @emeraldonion@disobey.net

· 5mo ago

our RISC-V build script (OpenSSL + Tor) has been updated to clean up from OpenSSL 3.x builds for the new 4.x build

https://code.disobey.net/EmeraldOnion/tor-openssl-riscv/

if you're still running OpenSSL 3.4 or prior, please update to 3.5.x or later as soon as possible to support ML-KEM!

code.disobey.net

tor-openssl-riscv

This script aims to build Tor and OpenSSL on RISC-V systems more simply. This is used for our SiFive HiFive Tor exit relay.

AS 396507 @emeraldonion@disobey.net

· 13mo ago

Replying to

up to [809.23 MiB/s = 6.79 Gbps] advertised bandwidth!

AS 396507 @emeraldonion@disobey.net

· 13mo ago

Replying to

We are now up to [1112.29 MiB/s = 9.33 Gbps] advertised bandwidth, and more importantly 0.4448% consensus weight. At 15th, to overtake @flokinet, this might take some time. However, most of our relays currently are less than 2 weeks old, so after 14 days, it's possible we move up in the exit family ranking. It's clear that adding more relays helps increase "advertised bandwidth" quite a bit. Our actual bandwidth utilization is less. We expect our eventual, peak advertised bandwidth will quickly go beyond our physical limitation of 10 Gbps.

AS 396507 @emeraldonion@disobey.net

· 13mo ago

Replying to

now up to [944.13 MiB/s = 7.92 Gbps] advertised bandwidth and we broke into the top 20 exit providers, based on family, and consensus weight hopefully as a US provider, we can get back into the top 10 again and lessen this Euro-centrism

AS 396507 @emeraldonion@disobey.net

· 13mo ago

Replying to

For comparison, on 2023-March-13, our exit probability reached 3rd at 4.9118%, advertised bandwidth of [1907 MiB/s = 16.00 Gbps], but our peak throughput at that time was only 5.2 Gbps symmetrical