Install Tor on AWS, November 2016

tor-aws.md

As of 2016-11-20, this installs Tor on an AWS Ubuntu Micro EC2 instance

See sources here and here.

Write new apt sources -- you might need to do this manually

echo "deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org xenial main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org xenial main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the key server

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89
gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -

Install

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring

Check that you're running the service

service --status-all | grep tor

Configure

vim /etc/tor/torrc

• Make sure to open an ORPort that is open in your security policy on AWS
• Set your contact info, in case things get weird, with ContactInfo
• Make sure you're not an Exit node, or AWS will get mad: ExitPolicy reject *:* # no exits allowed
• Make sure to set bandwith limits, with AccoutingMax, AccountingStart, RelayBandwidthRate, and RelayBandwidthBurst

Reload!

sudo service tor reload

Monitor. Wait for the below two lines, then you're good:

tail -F /var/log/tor/log

"Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor." "Performing bandwidth self-test...done."