[tor-dev] Tor HS DHT Research

[Gareth Owen]

Arlo

Thanks for your feedback.  It appears that it isn't possible to game the
uptime since this commit:

https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/f7a3cdc8f27c2306cf06d742af63846c82ebdc56

Thanks for the pointer to shadow.

All the best
Gareth


On 3 March 2014 14:02, Gareth Owen <gareth.owen at port.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear all
>
> Sorry if this is the wrong list (please tell me if it is).
>
> I'm undertaking research into the tor HS DHT and have a couple of
> questions.  I know at present, a node must be on for 25 hours to
> participate in the DHT; however, periodically I wish to make small code
> changes to Tor and restart the node (aka fairly instantly/within minutes)
> but this causes me to lose the HSDir flag.  So my questions are:
>
> 1) Is there anyway to restart Tor without losing the HSDir flag?
> 2) Is uptime self reporting - e.g. is a node's self reported uptime
> trusted or is it obtained elsewhere - I couldn't find the answer in the
> code.  I guess what I'm getting at, is can I fake the uptime to get the
> HSDir flag?
>
> Best
> Gareth
>
> ---
> Dr Gareth Owen
> School of Computing
> University of Portsmouth
>
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