[tor-relays] Fwd: Tor family graphs

JovianMallard tor at sec.gd
Wed Jul 22 19:58:45 UTC 2015


Out of curiosity, what is the need for ensuring a node cannot be put
into a family without its consent? What would be wrong with, say, a
FamilyName directive? Set the same FamilyName on each node you control,
and routes will avoid multiples.


On 07/22/2015 03:48 PM, Virgil Griffith wrote:
>> Thanks Virgil!
> Anytime.
> 
> I don't know the opportunity cost for implementing it, but there's
> always proposal #242 ;)
> 
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/242-better-families.txt
> 
> -V
> 
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 09:31:58PM +0800, Virgil Griffith wrote:
>>>   I present three graphs of all Tor relays (nodes) with at
>>> least one family connection (edge).
>>
>> Thanks Virgil!
>>
>> I think the clear first conclusion here is that our current method,
>> writing symmetric fingerprints into torrcs, is not consistently easy
>> for relay operators to use.
>>
>> I don't have a fix -- but if anybody out there has been working on a
>> proposal for a better design, they should point to these graphs as
>> justification that it is a real issue worth solving.
>>
>> --Roger
>>
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