Re: [tor-relays] Ripped off relay name

On Monday, September 20, 2021 6:31:04 PM CEST xplato via tor-relays wrote:

Just curious a relay appeared with a nearly identical name to a relay I have run for a while. Is this just a lack of creativity or something that I should be concerned about?

Relay nicknames are not relevant. Relays are recognized by their fingerprint. 100th relays have the same nickname 'unnamed'. https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/unnamed

In torrc, nicknames can only be used with HSLayer [2,3] nodes. A list of identity fingerprints and address patterns should be used.