Re: [tor-dev] automatically detect many new identical/similar bridges

2016-12-15 Thread isis agora lovecruft
nusenu transcribed 3.9K bytes: > > Or, alternately, if they submit a bridge descriptor from an AS they > > are watching, then they know all the bridges in that AS. > > > > And they don't actually need to be in the AS to submit a descriptor > > with an IP address from that AS. > > Ok that makes

Re: [tor-dev] automatically detect many new identical/similar bridges

2016-12-14 Thread nusenu
>> I'm not sure I understand what you mean by brute-forcing in this case >> since I would not suggest any deterministic algorithm (like a hash) that >> takes an ASname and a timestamp and produces a string but just a >> AS number -> random id >> mapping, stored for a day or an hour and deleted

Re: [tor-dev] automatically detect many new identical/similar bridges

2016-12-14 Thread David Fifield
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:09:00AM +, nusenu wrote: > in the context of [1] I'm wondering if it makes sense to add bridge > support to ornetradar. > > If there is any value to automatically detect multiple new bridges: > > - Do bridges publish ContactInfo in their descriptor? If not: Why

[tor-dev] automatically detect many new identical/similar bridges

2016-12-14 Thread nusenu
Hi, in the context of [1] I'm wondering if it makes sense to add bridge support to ornetradar. If there is any value to automatically detect multiple new bridges: - Do bridges publish ContactInfo in their descriptor? If not: Why not? (it shouldn't disclose their bridge location) another raw