Re: [tor-relays] [Software Announcement] FamilyGenerator: Tor MyFamily Generator

On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 20:29:17 -0400 Neel Chauhan neel@neelc.org wrote:

Hi tor-relays mailing list,

I have created a tool called FamilyGenerator. FamilyGenerator is a tool to automatically construct a Tor MyFamily line based on Onionoo parameters.

If you blindly trust fingerprints fetched "from the Internet" and insert them into your MyFamily string, then you might as well just use nicknames there. Actually this is what I do, and while it does have the same downside as your tool ("what if someone uses the same nickname"), at least it's much simpler, human-readable in torrc, and not requiring any extra scripts.