[tor-bugs] #2988 [Tor Relay]: information disclosure: operating system and platform

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#2988: information disclosure: operating system and platform
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 Reporter:  tagnaq     |          Owner:                  
     Type:  defect     |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  normal     |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Tor Relay  |        Version:                  
 Keywords:             |         Parent:                  
   Points:             |   Actualpoints:                  
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Comment(by mikeperry):

 Replying to [comment:22 rransom]:
 > Replying to [comment:21 mikeperry]:
 > > So, in my ideal world, the version string would be Tor major+minor
 version + libevent version + method, with no arch, and no git hash. Maybe
 also OS, depending on what Nick says about libevent capturing this info.
 >
 > We need the Git hash to identify Tor instances built from maint-*
 branches.

 Yeah, but this is annoying for other reasons... What is stopping us from
 fixing this issue? Is it just a pain to merge down the autoconf updates,
 for some reason? Sounds like a separate ticket to me, unless there is some
 real barrier to making maint behave sanely that we're unlikely to ever
 address.

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