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Getting a HSDir Flag
It's a little more complicated than "just a matter of time." You need the "Fast" and "Stable" flags, according to ticket #8243. According to ticket #12538 the DirPort is not required anymore.
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Malicious hidden service directories
Quick synopsis
This is oldish research that was presented about a year ago by Filippo Valsorda and George Tankersley at HITB.
Sophos are an anti-virus company. They have a product to sell and the ...
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Can a HSDir see visited onion url's?
Yes, currently HSDirs can see the looked up .onion hostname. This does not include the full URL but just the .onion hostname. Proposal 224 (ticket #12424) will fix this issue. See also #8106.
If you ...
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Does Tor still monitor "shadow" relays?
As far as I know it is still possible to do those kind of attacks against the network. However Tor tries to detect bad relays and block them from participating in the network. So there is a high ...
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Can a hidden service operator specify a certain tor relay to always be one of its introductory point
Introduction Points do not need to be a Hidden Service Directory.
In theory, you could manually pick introduction points but there is no configuration option to do this, since it's not helpful for ...
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How many Tor relays between the HS server to IP, RP, and HSDir?
Each Tor circuit has 3 relays: a guard, middle, and exit. A HS server will build a Tor circuit to the Introduction Point, Rendezvous Point, and HS Directory, so there would be 3 relays between the HS ...
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