[tor-bugs] #3023 [Tor Directory Authority]: Tor directory authorities should not act as regular relays/hsdirs

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#3023: Tor directory authorities should not act as regular relays/hsdirs
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 Reporter:  Sebastian                             |          Owner:                  
     Type:  defect                                |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  normal                                |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Tor Directory Authority               |        Version:                  
 Keywords:  performance bootstrap dos-resistance  |         Parent:  #2664           
   Points:                                        |   Actualpoints:                  
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Changes (by mikeperry):

  * keywords:  performance bootstrap => performance bootstrap dos-
               resistance
  * parent:  => #2664


Comment:

 I think this is also a DoS resistance feature. People can currently create
 loads of circuits through dirauths and sap their CPU Or bandwidth
 resources.

 In addition to not being in the consensus, in an ideal world dirauths
 would also refuse circuit creation attemps (save for one-hop tunneled
 dirconns and descriptor submissions).

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