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Re: [tor-talk] Invalid consensus today



Thanks a lot for the clarification.

fre. 18. mar. 2016 kl. 17.00 skrev Sebastian Hahn <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>:

> Hi there,
>
> different threads on this list have already begun popping up about
> today's 0700 UTC consensus. The reason is that the dirauths did
> not produce a consensus that was signed by all 9, but rather the
> vote was split (this happens sometimes and usually causes no great
> concern). The dirauth dannenberg was on the winning side of split,
> so the produced consensus had just 5 signatures, the minimum
> required amount for a consensus to be valid. Unfortunately, its key
> changed recently and that change has not yet been communicated via
> a new Tor stable release. Thus, any Tor not configured to trust
> dannenberg's new key would've rejected the consensus as signed by
> just 4 directory authorities.
>
> Now that all 9 are in agreement again this problem is gone and there
> should be no more logs appearing from this incident.
>
> Cheers
> Sebastian
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