[tor-talk] Tor on the International Space Station?

[Nathaniel Suchy]

Hi everyone,

Do we know if anyone has ever connected to the Tor Network from the
International Space Station? This would be a really interesting data point
to have / know about. Does NASA use their own ASN for the station or
something else? I know people there can use Twitter so Tor would probably
work?

Cordially,
Nathaniel Suchy

[Lara]

Post by Nathaniel Suchy
Do we know if anyone has ever connected to the Tor Network from the
International Space Station?

It would be quite ironic, given the latency they face in orbit.

Cheers!

[Andreas Krey]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:08:17 +0000, Lara wrote:
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Post by Lara
It would be quite ironic, given the latency they face in orbit.

The ISS doesn't fly that high - having a link directly down would
means a few millisecond ping time. But they have to link via (other)
satellites because you'd need an awful lot of ground stations to be
able to continuously connect directly to those. And depending on the
relay satellite height that adds quite some delay.

Also the ping times over a day probably look quite interesting.

Andreas

[flipchan]

That would be epic!
A Tor node in space would be amazing

Post by Nathaniel Suchy
Hi everyone,
Do we know if anyone has ever connected to the Tor Network from the
International Space Station? This would be a really interesting data point
to have / know about. Does NASA use their own ASN for the station or
something else? I know people there can use Twitter so Tor would probably
work?
Cordially,
Nathaniel Suchy
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[Kevin]

I know that what Nasa uses is space to ground networking.  I am sure it
would work.  We need to keep in mind that there is a time delay from
space to earth so somebody up there running a relay may throw off the
tor network a bit.

Post by Nathaniel Suchy
Hi everyone,
Do we know if anyone has ever connected to the Tor Network from the
International Space Station? This would be a really interesting data point
to have / know about. Does NASA use their own ASN for the station or
something else? I know people there can use Twitter so Tor would probably
work?
Cordially,
Nathaniel Suchy

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