Thus spake Nick Mathewson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 01:46:39AM -0600, Mike Perry wrote: > > Several nodes seem to be rapidly rotating keys.. Over the past 24 > > hours or so the following nodes have changed keys: > > Actually, from the look of things, these are actually multiple nodes > with the same nickname. This is completely kosher according to the > spec. If you want to tell nodes apart, you're supposed to look at the > identity key, not just at the nickname. Unless the "Named" flag is > set in the network status docs, the nickname is not a canonical > identifier.
Ah. I thought the purpose of using keys was to get the same nodes after name changes. I thought names were enforced to be unique. > In some cases, this is probably intentional. "Unnamed" is currently > the default nickname used when no nickname is set. > "ididedittheconfig" seems like an obvious riff on the line in the > default torrc. "anonymous" seems like an obvious "I didn't want to > name this" name. I'm not so sure abobut waldi, iddbadfpi2, and oinc. You're right, I should have just looked at the directory. All those but waldi and oinc actually have different IP addresses. I will try to be more thorough next time. -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs
