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Re: [tor-talk] whats the very first connection initialized by tor at startup?



ah, what i forgot to ask:
are these trusted_dir_authorities regular nodes with fingerprints and so on?



Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:01:17 +0200
From: Simon.Nicolussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: tor-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [tor-talk] whats the very first connection initialized by tor at startup?

fido dido wrote:
> i mean there must be a server who got at least a bit of information
> about some nodes to start from. like in bittorrent where the tracker
> knows all the peers.

These would be the directory authorities that can be found in the
function add_default_trusted_dir_authorities in src/or/config.c.

There is an exception, of course: if you're using bridges, Tor is
required to go through a bridge beforehand.

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Simon Nicolussi, <Simon.Nicolussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~csag9583/

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