On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 09:54:00PM +0000, nusenu wrote:
it is pretty obvious from their fingerprints that they are a group of relays that aim to be at a certain position on the DHT ring to become the HSDir of someone's onion
Right. We have bumped them out of the network, along with some others that looked similar. They are all new relays so they didn't have much weight or influence yet.
One thing to be careful of, in this particular situation, is that when you see a set of k relays with very similar fingerprints, it's hard to distinguish "there are k jerks that need to be removed from the network" from "there are k-1 jerks, and one original possibly-unrelated relay that for whatever reason they decided to imitate".
(In this case it looks like the former.)
Thanks, --Roger