Just curious a relay appeared with a nearly identical name to a relay I have run for a while. Is this just a lack of creativity or something that I should be concerned about? The name is fairly unique and the new relay is almost identical in name.
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xplato via tor-relays:
Just curious a relay appeared with a nearly identical name to a relay I have run for a while. Is this just a lack of creativity or something that I should be concerned about? The name is fairly unique and the new relay is almost identical in name.
This happens from time to time. It could be someone trying to impersonate your relay. Feel free to contact
bad-relays@lists.torproject.org
with your relay nickname/fingerprint and we can take care of that and investigate.
Thanks, Georg
Georg Koppen gk@torproject.org hat am 20.09.2021 18:38 geschrieben:
This happens from time to time. It could be someone trying to impersonate your relay. Feel free to contact
bad-relays@lists.torproject.org
with your relay nickname/fingerprint and we can take care of that and investigate.
That reminds me, I recently wrote a simple Python script to check for relays with look-alike names or ContactInfo:
https://github.com/artikel10/impostor
It even found something, but it was only our new relays when I forgot to update the MyFamily value. 😬
Kind regards, Alexander
On Monday, September 20, 2021 6:31:04 PM CEST xplato via tor-relays wrote:
Just curious a relay appeared with a nearly identical name to a relay I have run for a while. Is this just a lack of creativity or something that I should be concerned about?
Relay nicknames are not relevant. Relays are recognized by their fingerprint. 100th relays have the same nickname 'unnamed'. https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/unnamed
In torrc, nicknames can only be used with HSLayer [2,3] nodes. A list of identity fingerprints and address patterns should be used.
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