On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 01:46:39AM -0600, Mike Perry wrote: > Several nodes seem to be rapidly rotating keys.. Over the past 24 > hours or so the following nodes have changed keys: Actually, from the look of things, these are actually multiple nodes with the same nickname. This is completely kosher according to the spec. If you want to tell nodes apart, you're supposed to look at the identity key, not just at the nickname. Unless the "Named" flag is set in the network status docs, the nickname is not a canonical identifier. In some cases, this is probably intentional. "Unnamed" is currently the default nickname used when no nickname is set. "ididedittheconfig" seems like an obvious riff on the line in the default torrc. "anonymous" seems like an obvious "I didn't want to name this" name. I'm not so sure abobut waldi, iddbadfpi2, and oinc. > Unnamed - 11 changes, 7 keys > ididedittheconfig - 6 changes, 3 keys > waldi - 5 changes, 2 keys > iddbadfpi2 - 3 changes, 2 keys > oinc - 3 changes, 2 keys > anonymous - 2 changes, 2 keys > > Is there any reason why these nodes are doing this? It's been going on > for a while (month or more?), finally got around to recording it. yrs, -- Nick Mathewson
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