[tor-dev] Proposal: Stop giving Exit flags when only unencrypted traffic can exit

Virgil Griffith i at virgil.gr
Wed Jan 6 10:26:31 UTC 2016


Tom, to ensure I understand you clearly, is your argument that relays that
export only unencrypted shouldn't get the Exit Flag because
insecure/unecrypted traffic "isn't what Tor is intended for?" I want to be
sure that I'm fully understanding your proposal.

-V
On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 at 17:57 Moritz Bartl <moritz at torservers.net> wrote:

> On 01/05/2016 01:29 AM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote:
> >   communities on the internet. Other popular ports have been considered,
> >   such as 22 (SSH), 465 (SMTP), or 995 (POP3), but these are unlikely to
> be good
> >   candidates because of wide spread bruteforce attacks on these ports.
>
> Just as a data point, I don't see much scanning/abuse regarding SMTPS
> (465) or IMAPS (993).
>
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