On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:36:55 +0200 tagnaq tagnaq@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know if this is already done but it just came into my mind when writing something to sync MyFamily settings throughout multiple nodes:
To avoid frequent reloads of many Tor instances, one could pre-emptively create keys (lets say keys for 30 nodes) and build a MyFamily set for it. As you add nodes use this MyFamily set although not all 30 keys are in use yet. This way one would not have to touch running instances when adding new ones.
From a security point of view this is probably quite a bad thing, but does someone already do that?
If you handle the secret keys sensibly, it won't harm security, but the extra (not-yet-in-use) MyFamily entries will take up more space in your relay descriptor than necessary, and thus use more of the Tor network's bandwidth than necessary.
Robert Ransom