[tor-relays] keypair issue after backing up relay

[Tim Wilson-Brown - teor]

> On 24 Nov 2015, at 10:14, Matlink <matlink at matlink.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm running a tor relay. I once had some trouble about running it, and I
> decided to reinstall tor via apt-get. Of course, it did erased all my
> private and public keys, that I missed to backup before reinstalling tor.
> Then I ran tor again, with the new identity. As I have a container
> backup running every day, I was able to recover the erased private and
> public keys, that I put them back.
> I can run tor with my original identity, but the directory server is
> saying me '[WARN] http status 400 ("Looks like your keypair does not
> match its older value.")'.
> How can I fix it ? I would like to keep the original identity, since I
> had all the convenient flags and don't want to wait another couple of
> weeks to get them back with a new identity.

Either replace your ed25519 master key from the backup, or wait until urras moves away from a version that does key pinning.
(In either case, the remaining authorities should accept your relay.)

See this thread for details:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-November/008217.html <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-November/008217.html>

Tim

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