<html><head></head><body>That is why many of us do what we do Nathaniel <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 12, 2018 6:17:56 PM UTC, Nathaniel Suchy <me@lunorian.is> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">It's scary to think there are bad people out there actively trying to harm our community :(<br><br>Cordially,<br>Nathaniel Suchy<br><br><br><br>Dec 12, 2018, 10:46 AM by dgoulet@torproject.org:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 12 Dec (09:33:58), Toralf Förster wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">On 12/11/18 10:54 PM, nusenu wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;">from their fingerprints<br></blockquote> I'm just curious that the fingerprints starts with the same sequence. I was<br> under the impression that the fingerprint is somehow unique like a hash?<br><br></blockquote> If one would like to position their relay on the hashring at a specific spot,<br> you can bruteforce the key generation to match the first bytes of the<br> fingerprint. Usually 4 or 5 bytes are enough and it doesn't take that long to<br> compute.<br><br> And because the position on the hashring is predictable over time for hidden<br> service *version 2*, then anyone can setup relays that in 5 days will be at<br> the right position.<br><br> Thus the importance to catch these relays before they get the HSDir flag that<br> is 96 hours of uptime.<br><br> Cheers!<br> David<br><br> -- <br> WzhUyhDvWQI2JZglnMWl4fhIHYln5DpMG50IrXaHPLU=<br><br></blockquote><hr>tor-relays mailing list<br>tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br><a href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Spiros Andreou</body></html>