Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?

Matthew pumpkin at cotse.net
Tue Feb 1 23:04:38 UTC 2011


  We already filter exit nodes based on suspicion by defaulting
> ExcludeSingleHopRelays to true (the reason for that being that single
> hop exits are more likely to be passively monitoring data).
Can you please say a little more about this for all of us who are not au 
fait with all command options?
> We also
> invalidated the trotsky relays without proof of malicious intent (a
> suspected sybil attack when over seven hundred identical relays
> appeared out of the blue).
Could you please say a little more about this case and "sybil attack[s]"?
>
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Orionjur Tor-admin
> <tor-admin at orionjurinform.com>  wrote:
>> Damian Johnson wrote:
>>> The five relays Mike mentioned have been flagged as BadExits [1].
>>> Adding them to your ExcludeExitNodes isn't necessary. -Damian
>>>
>>> [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/badRelays
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Jan Weiher<jan at buksy.de>  wrote:
>>>>> At some point, we intend to shrink exit policies further as Tor scales
>>>>> to more decentralized schemes. Those exit policies will likely be
>>>>> represented as bits representing subsets of ports. When that time
>>>>> comes, we will very likely combine encrypted and unencrypted versions
>>>>> of ports together, removing this option entirely.
>>>>>
>>>> Sounds good. But what to do for now? Just creating a list of nodes which
>>>> only allow unencrypted traffic and put them into the ExcludeExitNodes
>>>> list? Shouldnt these nodes be excluded by default?
>>>> I'm unsure. I want to stress again that I'm not saying any operator is
>>>> doing anything evil, but I think we should find some way to avoid nodes
>>>> which have such weird exitpolicies.
>>>>
>>>> best regards,
>>>> Jan
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>>
>> Is it possible to publish a list of bad-exits for copypasting it to
>> /etc/torrc in addition to the above-mentioned list?
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