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Re: [tor-bugs] #8624 [Vidalia]: Easy way to find and block misbehaving Tor relays
#8624: Easy way to find and block misbehaving Tor relays
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Reporter: runa | Owner: chiiph
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Vidalia | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by atagar):
I agree there should be better protections against broken relays, however
I don't think client side is the way to go. Any mechanism you add that
encourages ExcludeNodes will cause some deviance in their circuit
patterns, possibly threatening the user's anonymity. It would also be a
messy game of whack-a-mole every tor user would be forced to play to get
any benefits...
Maybe a better thing to propose would be a relay scanner, something
similar to SoaT but designed to detect flakiness rather than
maliciousness. That said, it's never gonna happen unless someone
volunteers to write it... ;)
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8624#comment:1>
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