Thomas White wrote: > Generally some criteria for DirAuths are people who are trusted by the > community, aren't raided very often/have legal troubles/could be > legally compromised, people with an extensive understanding of how Tor > works and people who can secure their systems from attacks. Remember > every time a dirauth is added or change IP a new tor version must be > released as they are hardcoded so it isn't a simple process to add a > new one, not to mention intra-dirauth communication and verification.
I don't know about the intra-dirauth communication, but as far as the directory authorities being hard coded, would it make sense to put them in a small configuration file instead? If for some reason it is deemed undesirable to allow users to alter that file, there could be a requirement the file be signed with one or more private keys and have the corresponding public keys hardcoded into the code. It would be much easier and cheaper to distribute a new, small, signed configuration file than to release and distribute a whole new version of tor. Jim -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
