[tor-bugs] #6800 [Tor]: An attacker can flood network with new relays to make us stop using bwauth weights

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#6800: An attacker can flood network with new relays to make us stop using bwauth
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 Reporter:  arma                                 |          Owner:
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:  Tor:
Component:  Tor                                  |  0.2.8.x-final
 Severity:  Normal                               |        Version:  Tor:
 Keywords:  tor-relay, 027-triaged-1-in,         |  0.2.7
  pre028-patch                                   |     Resolution:  wontfix
Parent ID:                                       |  Actual Points:
  Sponsor:  SponsorU                             |         Points:
                                                 |  medium/large
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Changes (by dgoulet):

 * status:  needs_review => closed
 * resolution:   => wontfix


Comment:

 Ack to close here. This should be pushed on the bwauth side.

 I'll act on the ticket status and we'll reopen if we think we need another
 direction. Although, at some point we might want to have a "bwauth"
 component if it does still stay outside of little-t tor.

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