[tor-relays] Relays vulnerable to OpenSSL bug: Please upgrade

Zack Weinberg zackw at cmu.edu
Tue Apr 8 16:01:06 UTC 2014


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Moritz Bartl <moritz at torservers.net> wrote:
> On 04/08/2014 04:58 PM, ecarter9 at riseup.net wrote:
>> Greetings all.  I follwed the above instructions on my relay.  Upon
>> restarting Tor I have lost all of my flags and I have a new fingerprint.
>> Previously I had the Fast, Guard, Named, Running, Stable, and Valid flags.
>>  Is this expected?  Did I miss a step somewhere?  Thanks for any help.
>
> Yes. You made it generate new keys, so it is a "new relay" as far as Tor
> is concerned. This is why not everybody should generate new keys
> immediately, especially larger relays. But don't worry too much, you'll
> get your flags back eventually. :)

Note that this also means you need to update your MyFamily directives.

I don't think anything else has long-term key fingerprints wired into
it, but I could be wrong.


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