-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Since I originally started keeping an eye on these on my Raspberry Pi relay (read: slow, resource-limited), I've got to wonder if the circuit creation storms I was seeing months ago weren't normal network phenomena but some kind of test run. We are talking going from 50-250 circuits to thousands of requests per *second* out of nowhere, and then if the machine survived it, the storm disappearing as suddenly as it came. This was happening months ago, but less frequently and only on lower-end hardware. Now it's happening everywhere. Even if the previous case *were* "normal" Tor network operation, I'd say it's a bug, but I'm suspicious that it was whatever is going on now in its test phase. tor@xxxxxxx: > Also see a repeat of the odd log message with the 154.x net address > someone else described with the huge hexidecimal string (40 hex > chars, + sign, 40 more, on and on). Here as well. I believe this is the sign of an overloaded Tor directory server. >> Over roughly the same time frame I received an incredibly high >> number of spam e-mails in one e-mail account that normally gets >> 20 or so a day on quiet days. Perhaps this is another example >> of mal-ware in action. Funny, one of the dropped connections during my storm last night was to port 993... :P Best, - -Gordon M. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJSIU2zAAoJED/jpRoe7/ujMm4H/iruokRzfasoJy7jdXF0bMJT 5W94DUUzZJV+XbJIr208PxKFmElOUKLP/L/1Dqlx8csPFqqi6pN4yvBC26QMgxhh lrcnyV0PaUAc8rwhK9cVKwl/JIoxsHFxpxL1fJBAbO9vzyr5XxKyCwiSNuIco7ip RZEQc8/3pr/TsivTWUwSNcFtDUiFLi7+IrvGcPNG3bSbOfLhXzzfQ1SILzoy4ddm jFW31hw/O8/J/P0XC2SbH1n1NsW7GdhhOQMoIx66d/znhy4ir9k7vdcq4MNoYwTx SSGZc6HcZysmG78fMe7Eo00kv5sLygZnkGhZkFZEzKcjaKJoopFqnCLd60iW1lQ= =SaO7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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