Embedded Tips

Purpose

This page is meant to collect information and tips for those developing tor on embedded devices. Please post to the or-talk list if you're starting work on such a project.

Performance of various ARM boards running Tor

This is a performance list that is compiled to see how much throughput an ARM board can do before maxing out one core.

• Performance of ARM boards

Working Targets

There are instructions on how to run Tor on these devices.

• SheevaPlug
• Synology DiskStation (BusyBox)

Candidate Targets

Please make these into their own pages as projects progress.

• Fonera 2
• Tomato
• The Bug
• OpenWRT
• DD-WRT
• Windows Embedded

Topics of Interest in the Wiki

• Transparently routing traffic through Tor: Using Tor's transparent proxy feature

External Links

• How to transparent proxy la fonera via Tor
• Unslung OptWare
• tor-ramdisk
• rbox: a proxy server

Official Certification Program

The Tor Project is developing a certification program to ensure that devices advertised as having Tor capability do so properly.