Arlo Thanks for your feedback. It appears that it isn't possible to game the uptime since this commit:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/f7a3cdc8f27c2306cf06d742af63846c82ebdc56 Thanks for the pointer to shadow. All the best Gareth On 3 March 2014 14:02, Gareth Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all > > Sorry if this is the wrong list (please tell me if it is). > > I'm undertaking research into the tor HS DHT and have a couple of > questions. I know at present, a node must be on for 25 hours to > participate in the DHT; however, periodically I wish to make small code > changes to Tor and restart the node (aka fairly instantly/within minutes) > but this causes me to lose the HSDir flag. So my questions are: > > 1) Is there anyway to restart Tor without losing the HSDir flag? > 2) Is uptime self reporting - e.g. is a node's self reported uptime > trusted or is it obtained elsewhere - I couldn't find the answer in the > code. I guess what I'm getting at, is can I fake the uptime to get the > HSDir flag? > > Best > Gareth > > --- > Dr Gareth Owen > School of Computing > University of Portsmouth >
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