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ah, what i forgot to ask:<br>are these trusted_dir_authorities regular nodes with fingerprints and so on?<br><br><br><br><div>Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:01:17 +0200<br>From: Simon.Nicolussi@student.uibk.ac.at<br>To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org<br>Subject: Re: [tor-talk] whats the very first connection initialized by tor at startup?<br><br><pre>fido dido wrote:<br>> i mean there must be a server who got at least a bit of information<br>> about some nodes to start from. like in bittorrent where the tracker<br>> knows all the peers.<br> <br>These would be the directory authorities that can be found in the<br>function add_default_trusted_dir_authorities in src/or/config.c.<br> <br>There is an exception, of course: if you're using bridges, Tor is<br>required to go through a bridge beforehand.<br> <br>-- <br>Simon Nicolussi, <Simon.Nicolussi@student.uibk.ac.at><br><a href="http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/%7Ecsag9583/" target="_blank">http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~csag9583/</a><br></pre><br>_______________________________________________
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