On December 12, 2018 6:17:56 PM UTC, Nathaniel Suchy <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's scary to think there are bad people out there actively trying to harm our community :(
Cordially,
Nathaniel Suchy
Dec 12, 2018, 10:46 AM by dgoulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
On 12 Dec (09:33:58), Toralf Förster wrote:
On 12/11/18 10:54 PM, nusenu wrote:
from their fingerprints
I'm just curious that the fingerprints starts with the same sequence. I was
under the impression that the fingerprint is somehow unique like a hash?
If one would like to position their relay on the hashring at a specific spot,
you can bruteforce the key generation to match the first bytes of the
fingerprint. Usually 4 or 5 bytes are enough and it doesn't take that long to
compute.
And because the position on the hashring is predictable over time for hidden
service *version 2*, then anyone can setup relays that in 5 days will be at
the right position.
Thus the importance to catch these relays before they get the HSDir flag that
is 96 hours of uptime.
Cheers!
David
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