On 15 May 2011 22:57, Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:48:00PM +0200, tagnaq wrote: >> "Not reporting version is actively harmful" [1] >> [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2980 >> > > Well, it's harmful in two ways. First is that clients will mistakenly > ask for service from relays that don't know how to provide it, or that > provide it in a buggy fashion. You can look through Tor's code for calls > to tor_version_as_new_as() to see examples. Second is that the developers, > when trying to debug something, will get misled. > >> - Is it possible to detect if someone is harming the Tor network in this >> way? > > You could in theory scan for wrong versions, e.g. by doing requests to a > relay and seeing how it answers. If there's no interaction that allows > us to distinguish between a relay that has a working feature and one > that doesn't, then is it really a bug? :) > > As for relays that don't report *any* version... I think there are > basically none of those. > >> - Are you already running such scanners or is there the Exit Scanner only? > > We haven't needed to explore this issue much because most relays seem > to be running the code we wrote. I think it falls into the "don't think > about it too much until it happens, since whatever you prepared for > isn't going to be the thing that actually goes wrong" category. > > --Roger > > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >
A few weeks ago, there was one that tried to give me a .bin file whenever I tried to visit a non-SSL website, but I haven't had a problem like that since. I always rejected the .bin file. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
