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I was looking for a virtual machine that has Tor relay pre-configured. This came to my mind while thinking about the the amount of security which can be provided by having thousands of similar Tor users with identical OS, screen resolution, browser version, folder structure, keyboard and etc. This is obviously good when somehow some of the users computer information leaks out, so that it is impossible to identify a person based on these info.

A good discussion here

But I'm more concerned about the relay rather than the client, so I searched and found no distribution that has pre-installed and pre-configured Tor relay.

This would be useful for rapidly increasing the number of relays if certain attacks were planned to be activated:

"While there have been claims that Lizard Squad is incapable of taking on Tor, it seems that there have been successful attacks. Security researcher Nadim Kobeissi tweeted a screenshot that shows a large number of relays named LizardNSA" Source

So does anyone know any project or distribution which is contributing to this concept?

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Do you mean relays or clients with browsers? Your mention of users and screens and browsers suggests the latter. The question you link to is also about Tor Browser, not relays.

A ready-made Tor client + Browser that you could run in a VM is Tails.

I would question the usefulness of a ready-made relays because

  • For relays it is not important to look similar to others.
  • (Relays are publicly known as such anyway.)
  • A relay takes some more config, which is most of the work anyway.
  • Adding a bunch of relays in response to someone else doing this won't do much.
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