[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#829740: RFP: corridor - a Tor traffic whitelisting gateway

[Patrick Schleizer]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-privacy-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org

* Package name    : corridor
  Version         : 20160705124628
  Upstream Author : rustybird <rustybird at openmailbox.org>
* URL             : https://github.com/rustybird/corridor
* License         : ISC / public domain
  Programming Lang: shell
  Description     : a Tor traffic whitelisting gateway

long description:

There are several transparently torifying gateways. They suffer from the
same problems:

- It's tricky to isolate circuits and issue NEWNYM signals, especially
if multiple client computers are involved.
- Any garbage software can pump identifiers into "anonymous" circuits,
and get itself exploited by malicious exit nodes.
- Trust is centralized to the gateway, which is bad enough when used by
ne person, and just inappropriate when shared with strangers.

corridor takes a different approach. It allows only connections to Tor
relays to pass through (no clearnet leaks!), but client computers are
themselves responsible for torifying their own traffic. In other words,
it is a filtering gateway, not a proxying gateway.

You can think of it as defense in depth for your vanilla Tor Browser or
Tails, for your beautiful scary experimental Qubes proxying schemes,
etc. Or invite the hood to use your WiFi without getting into trouble.

license file:

https://github.com/rustybird/corridor/blob/master/LICENSE