[tor-relays] Re: Tor Relay Operator Meetup at 39c3

[Roger Dingledine via tor-relays <tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the excellent summary Alex!

On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 03:18:03PM +0100, Alexander Hansen Færøy via tor-relays wrote:
> 2. One cypherpunk asked about a potential bug where the key pinning the
> directory authorities does to enforce that RSA and the ed25519 identity keys
> of the relays mustn't individually rotate during the lifetime of a relay,
> but they had a situation where this had enforcement had failed at first, but
> when they wanted to switch back to the old tuple of keys, the directory
> authorities refused this. Alex (me) had no good answers to this, but it
> sounds like the person asking the question was in contact with Roger about
> this. Do we have a ticket for this? It sounds like a bug to me.

This one sounds like the recent tor-relays@ thread with telekobold,
https://archives.seul.org/tor/relays/Dec-2025/msg00030.html

>From what is in the thread, it did not seem like a Tor bug, but rather
more of a design surprise.

--Roger

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