That is why many of us do what we do Nathaniel
On December 12, 2018 6:17:56 PM UTC, Nathaniel Suchy <m...@lunorian.is> wrote:
>It's scary to think there are bad people out there actively trying to
>harm our community :(
>
>Cordially,
>Nathaniel Suchy
>
>
>
>Dec 12, 2018, 10:46 AM by dgou...@torproject.org:
>
>> On 12 Dec (09:33:58), Toralf Förster wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/11/18 10:54 PM, nusenu wrote:
>>> > from their fingerprints
>>> I'm just curious that the fingerprints starts with the same
>sequence. I was
>>> under the impression that the fingerprint is somehow unique like a
>hash?
>>>
>>
>> If one would like to position their relay on the hashring at a
>specific spot,
>> you can bruteforce the key generation to match the first bytes of the
>> fingerprint. Usually 4 or 5 bytes are enough and it doesn't take that
>long to
>> compute.
>>
>> And because the position on the hashring is predictable over time for
>hidden
>> service *version 2*, then anyone can setup relays that in 5 days will
>be at
>> the right position.
>>
>> Thus the importance to catch these relays before they get the HSDir
>flag that
>> is 96 hours of uptime.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> David
>>
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