On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:44:21PM +0200, Moritz Bartl wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: - Medium - Tor servers, Tor community wants to disable your > nodes - General > Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:46:04 +0200 > From: Perfect Privacy Administration <[email protected]> > Organization: PP Internet Services [snip] > A proposal to the TOR developers: I don't know if it's technically > possible, but maybe one could introduce a "BelongingToFamily" entry or a > similarly named command in future versions of TOR which could work as > such, as that every server which contains the same "BelongingToFamily" > entry (e.g. "BelongingToFamily xyz") belongs to the family "xyz". > > That way one wouldn't have to enumerate all server names in the > "MyFamily" section of each and every individual torrc file what causes > an enormous effort if one adds a lot of servers (and donates a lot of > traffic) to the Tor network. As mentioned, we currently would have to > edit 45+ torrc files on 45+ TOR servers whenever a server is added or > removed, and the number of our servers is constantly increasing.
The trouble here is that if we make family declarations one-sided, then I can tell everybody that I'm in blutmagie's family (and X's family and Y's family and Z's family and ...), and suddenly I'm influencing the path selection of other clients in a way I shouldn't be able to. We need to have each set of relays in a family declare the others, or it's open to attacks like this. --Roger *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
