Introducing a tor hidden service mirror.
After speaking with both Greg and Marcello via e-mail over the last week, I'm happy to announce that there is now a Project Gutenberg mirror which operates as a hidden service on the Tor network. This will give PG's legitimate Tor users a safe way to access the content (As well as attract some spammers, which should pose an interesting challenge for me given the way hidden services are designed). For the moment only the text files are mirrored, but that may change when I get better hardware. The mirror is located here: http://nsakeysjzqismynb.onion/gutenberg/ For those who are unfamiliar with Tor, it can be downloaded here: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en Please note that access to this mirror is going to be slow due to the nature of hidden services. It may also appear to be down due to a bad connection between circuits. That's just the nature of the game, and part of the reason I'm only hosting the text files for now. - _NSAKEY P. S. The fact that this mirror was launched during Banned Book Week is just a cool coincidence.
Thanks for this. Is it a complete mirror? From earlier correspondence it sounded like just a subset. - Greg On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 03:50:50PM -0500, _NSAKEY wrote:
After speaking with both Greg and Marcello via e-mail over the last week, I'm happy to announce that there is now a Project Gutenberg mirror which operates as a hidden service on the Tor network. This will give PG's legitimate Tor users a safe way to access the content (As well as attract some spammers, which should pose an interesting challenge for me given the way hidden services are designed). For the moment only the text files are mirrored, but that may change when I get better hardware.
The mirror is located here: http://nsakeysjzqismynb.onion/gutenberg/
For those who are unfamiliar with Tor, it can be downloaded here: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en
Please note that access to this mirror is going to be slow due to the nature of hidden services. It may also appear to be down due to a bad connection between circuits. That's just the nature of the game, and part of the reason I'm only hosting the text files for now.
- _NSAKEY
P. S. The fact that this mirror was launched during Banned Book Week is just a cool coincidence. _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d
It's only the text files. At the rate I was able to rsync it would take a few weeks to get the entire collection and I'm currently not in a position to throw that kind of storage space at the problem. My plan is to eventually save up for a decent box with plenty of disk space so that I can operate a full mirror. Whenever I do that I'll let you know before making the switch. The current setup, in case you're wondering, is a FreeBSD virtual machine running on my desktop (Which was built within the last year, and which I never power off). The text files alone were too big for any of my SD cards, so that ruled out using my Raspberry Pi. The ancient Dell servers I mentioned in a previous e-mail were deemed too broken to be worth attempting to frankenstein together for this project, so they weren't used. On another note, my ISP doesn't have data caps and doesn't care if I run a server, so the only extra expense I have is electricity-related. - _NSAKEY On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
Thanks for this. Is it a complete mirror? From earlier correspondence it sounded like just a subset. - Greg
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 03:50:50PM -0500, _NSAKEY wrote:
After speaking with both Greg and Marcello via e-mail over the last week, I'm happy to announce that there is now a Project Gutenberg mirror which operates as a hidden service on the Tor network. This will give PG's legitimate Tor users a safe way to access the content (As well as attract some spammers, which should pose an interesting challenge for me given the way hidden services are designed). For the moment only the text files are mirrored, but that may change when I get better hardware.
The mirror is located here: http://nsakeysjzqismynb.onion/gutenberg/
For those who are unfamiliar with Tor, it can be downloaded here: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en
Please note that access to this mirror is going to be slow due to the nature of hidden services. It may also appear to be down due to a bad connection between circuits. That's just the nature of the game, and part of the reason I'm only hosting the text files for now.
- _NSAKEY
P. S. The fact that this mirror was launched during Banned Book Week is just a cool coincidence. _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d
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On 09/25/2014 10:50 PM, _NSAKEY wrote:
After speaking with both Greg and Marcello via e-mail over the last week, I'm happy to announce that there is now a Project Gutenberg mirror which operates as a hidden service on the Tor network. This will give PG's legitimate Tor users a safe way to access the content (As well as attract some spammers, which should pose an interesting challenge for me given the way hidden services are designed). For the moment only the text files are mirrored, but that may change when I get better hardware.
The mirror is located here: http://nsakeysjzqismynb.onion/gutenberg/
That name may scare users seeking anonymity. I'd get a better one. Regards -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
I've been using scallion to try bruteforcing an onion address that begins with 'gutenberg" but it's taking a lot longer than the estimated 14 hours (That doesn't mean that I gave up, just that I've thrown probably 72 hours worth of GPU time at the problem over the last week or so with no results). When I'm able to get the address I want, I'll point it at the PG directory and we can go from there. In the meantime, the address I have now works and I was under the impression that the mirror would be tested for uptime/stability for a month or so before its existence was made public (Meaning I have plenty of time to add/change the address). On 09/27/2014 06:11 AM, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
On 09/25/2014 10:50 PM, _NSAKEY wrote:
After speaking with both Greg and Marcello via e-mail over the last week, I'm happy to announce that there is now a Project Gutenberg mirror which operates as a hidden service on the Tor network. This will give PG's legitimate Tor users a safe way to access the content (As well as attract some spammers, which should pose an interesting challenge for me given the way hidden services are designed). For the moment only the text files are mirrored, but that may change when I get better hardware.
The mirror is located here: http://nsakeysjzqismynb.onion/gutenberg/
That name may scare users seeking anonymity. I'd get a better one.
Regards
I gave up on trying to generate an address which begins with "gutenberg." Instead, I've opted for the following: http://libraryhvopfiqnp.onion/gutenberg/ Marcello has a valid point about the other address. It might make random visitors paranoid, and that doesn't serve anyone's interests. I'm pretty sure that "library" is a lot less likely to trigger a negative reaction, especially considering PG's content. On another note: I tested the Tor Browser Bundle on Windows a few nights ago. It's really self-explanatory to use, to the point that I believe potential visitors can be guided towards it without needing any additional help.
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