[tor] Deploying a bridge w/ IOCoop

[Patrick O'Doherty]

Hey folks,

There's been some dispersed discussion recently about potentially
deploying a bridge, and on top of that committing financially to
operating it for a 12-18 month period such that we might offer it to the
Tor Project for inclusion in the vendored bridge list in the Tor Browser
Bundle.

One of the options for deployment that we had in mind was to rent rack
space from the IOCoop[0], a cooperative hosting provider with whom we
share a few members including Andy, Ben, Mark, and myself.

I floated the idea with the coop's board last night and they were very
receptive to the idea.

Currently they have the ability to sell us 150Mbps @ 95% (the minimum
bandwidth commit for a vendored TBB bridge) with the option to purchase
more cheap bandwidth via the coop in the near future. I estimate that we
could purchase ~500Mbps for approximately $250-300/month which is
considerably cheaper than our current Quadranet lease.

We have more than enough cash on hand to do this, so I'm proposing that
Noisetor spec out a 1U box to purchase either new or used depending on
what we can scrounge up) and rack it in the coop as soon as is feasible.

I'd love to get people's thoughts on this. Aside from the financial
aspects do people have any concerns about us running a bridge?[1]

cheers,

p

[0] - https://iocoop.org
[1] - We intend to submit a patch upstream to tor to allow Bridges to
advertise MyFamily associations such that no tor client would ever make
a circuit using both our bridge and exit relays.

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