[tor-relays] Reconfiguring a middle relay as a bridge

[torix at protonmail.com]

Thanks, Matt - that was what I suddenly realized as I planned to rebuild the relay: I wasn't changing the now public ip address.
--Torix


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On Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:06 AM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 02:47:30PM +0000, torix at protonmail.com wrote:
>
> > Is there a security problem with turning a middle relay, whose ip address is known, into a bridge?
>
> Depends on how you define "security problem". It's could certainly be
> problematic for a Tor user in a repressive regime to be seen to attempt to
> communicate with a known Tor node. It's also certainly pointless to run a
> brodge on an IP address known to be a Tor relay, because IP addresses of
> known Tor relays, even middle relays, are commonly blocked by the sorts of
> people who don't want others to use Tor. So Tor users affected won't be
> able to use your bridge anyway.
>
> -   Matt
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