Re: [tor-talk] Bridges and Exits together

[Anthony Papillion <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 02/20/2016 03:28 PM, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> Anthony Papillion writes:
> 
>> I already run an exit node and would like to also run a bridge.
>> Is it acceptable to run a bridge and an exit on the same machine
>> and on the same instance of Tor? If so, are there any security
>> issues I should be aware of in doing so? Any special precautions
>> or measures I should take to protect my users?
> 
> Your bridge will become less useful for censorship circumvention
> because its IP address (as an exit) will get published in the
> public directory of Tor nodes and so automatically added to
> blacklists of Tor-related addresses.  The censorship-circumvention
> benefit of bridges, ideally, comes in because censors don't know
> that their traffic is related to Tor.

Thank you. In that case, I'll bring up my bridge on another machine
and, probably preferably, on another network. Thanks for the fast
response.

Anthony


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