[tor-talk] Run Tor as a bridge in the Amazon Cloud

[Runa A. Sandvik]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 05:29:12PM +0000, Runa A. Sandvik wrote:
>> >> A bridge should not specify the ?MyFamily? option. You won't run a
>> >> middle relay or an exit relay in the cloud, so this shouldn't be an
>> >> issue.
>> >
>> > As far as I understand, this is correct if you only run bridges (because
>> > a circuit never uses two bridges), but what if someone (like me) runs a
>> > bridge and a normal relay as well? IMHO you don't want to use a relay
>> > which is operated by the same operator as your bridge? Please correct
>> > me, if I'm wrong.
>>
>> Yes, you should set the MyFamily option in the Tor configuration file
>> if you run both a bridge and a relay.
>
> No, this is dangerous: if you list your bridge as part of your family in
> the relay descriptor, then everybody can learn your bridge fingerprint,
> and they can look up your bridge's descriptor (and thus location) at
> the bridge directory authority.

Ah, thanks for correcting me. Maybe we should update the Tor manual to
point out that this option is for relays only, and not bridges?

-- 
Runa A. Sandvik