Re: [tor-dev] HSDir hash ring modification

2013-08-27 Thread Kang
Sure. This wasn't intended as a solution for the determinism problem. Just a small defence against harvesting of Tor hidden service descriptors by having each hidden service use a differently ordered ring, so it wouldn't be possible, for instance to place a dishonest node in every third position of

Re: [tor-dev] HSDir hash ring modification

2013-08-23 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: See also Roger's writeup at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8244 ; it's pretty informative IMO. ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi

Re: [tor-dev] HSDir hash ring modification

2013-08-23 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Kang wrote: > Hello. > I was reading about hidden services and a thought occurred to me > regarding the hash ring used in choosing and determining the HSDirs > for a hidden service. > As far as I can tell the hash ring is more or less static since a > relay's posit

[tor-dev] HSDir hash ring modification

2013-08-23 Thread Kang
Hello. I was reading about hidden services and a thought occurred to me regarding the hash ring used in choosing and determining the HSDirs for a hidden service. As far as I can tell the hash ring is more or less static since a relay's position is determined by their identity key, which doesn't cha