On 02/13/2011 04:19 PM, Tomasz Moskal wrote: > Now I'm even more confused! What is "DirectoryAuthorities"? > Could you point me somewhere I can > find more informations about matters relating to exit nodes?
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#KeyManagement (Coordination section) General Design Document: https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html.en#DesignDoc https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-design.html (chapter 6.3) Note: This document is from 2004. Statements like "new nodes must be approved by the directory server administrator before they are included" are no longer valid. https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/HEAD:/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt#l142 > How someone can recognise if an exit node *might* be doing something > suspicious - like sniffing traffic for passwords? As far as I can tell > (with my limited knowledge that is!) it's by checking which ports the > node in question is making available. And if there are not the standards > one then it *could* do something nasty - which of course don't mean it > does. Could you clarify this whole "rouge/bad/evil" nodes matter? Well this is currently a 'hot topic' and I refer you to the lengthy thread 'Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?'. Short answer: you can not reliably detect passive sniffing. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
