Thanks, Matt - that was what I suddenly realized as I planned to rebuild the relay: I wasn't changing the now public ip address. --Torix
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:06 AM, Matt Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 02:47:30PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > > Is there a security problem with turning a middle relay, whose ip address > > is known, into a bridge? > > Depends on how you define "security problem". It's could certainly be > problematic for a Tor user in a repressive regime to be seen to attempt to > communicate with a known Tor node. It's also certainly pointless to run a > brodge on an IP address known to be a Tor relay, because IP addresses of > known Tor relays, even middle relays, are commonly blocked by the sorts of > people who don't want others to use Tor. So Tor users affected won't be > able to use your bridge anyway. > > - Matt > > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
