[tor-project] Many bridges (22%) have nickname "ki"

Karsten Loesing karsten at torproject.org
Tue Jan 10 08:22:01 UTC 2017


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On 09/01/17 21:59, isis agora lovecruft wrote:
> I've patched BridgeDB (#21162) and added a file to blacklist these 
> bridges by fingerprint.  However, looking at the onionoo results 
> which David original pasted, the IP addresses are all different 
> (10.x.x.x) in onionoo for the ki bridges.  Perhaps something is
> wrong with onionoo's hashed-IP file thing?

Not a bug, a feature
(https://collector.torproject.org/#bridge-descriptors):

> IPv4 addresses are replaced with 10.x.x.x with x.x.x being the 3
> byte output of H(IP address | bridge identity | secret)[:3]. The
> input IP address is the 4-byte long binary representation of the
> bridge's current IP address. The bridge identity is the 20-byte
> long binary representation of the bridge's long-term identity
> fingerprint. The secret is a 31-byte long secure random string that
> changes once per month for all descriptors and statuses published
> in that month. H() is SHA-256. The [:3] operator means that we pick
> the 3 most significant bytes of the result.

All the best,
Karsten
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