[tor] noisetor recovery

[Patrick O'Doherty]

hey folks,

as some of you might have noticed the noisetor has been offline due to a
hardware (HDD) failure.

myself and Andy have gotten the host back online, but unfortunately it
looks as if we've lost the relay key material as the filesystem is
highly corrupted.

my plan to get noisetor back up and running is as follows:

1) image the disk and attempt to recover the key material

2) failing that generate new offline master keys (so that HDD recovery
doesn't cause this issue again) and create new 18-month signing keys
such that the relay can live again with minimal upkeep. I'm hoping that
an 18 month dead mans switch encourages somewhat more frequent
maintenance of the node going forward.

posting here so there's some semblance of a public plan to get noisetor
back on its feet.

cheers,

p

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