On 8/2/14, Roger Dingledine <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 03:38:51PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> >> the RELAY_EARLY cell has common legitimate uses. >> >> How can we distinguish an attack from those? >> > >> > Correctly-behaving Tor relays never send RELAY_CELL cells backwards >> > (towards the client) on the circuit. > > Gah. I should have written RELAY_EARLY above. Sorry for the confusion. > >> > So if you see one, it's somebody not following the protocol. >> >> Might be a stupid question sorry, but why not just block such >> relay-early packets coming in the wrong direction? > > New relays do block them. Actually they close the circuit and warn, > since once somebody has violated the protocol like this, it's unwise to > let them continue interacting with you. > > Or is that what you meant?
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