[tor-relays] SSH brute force attempts to connect to my Middle Relay IP address

[teor]

> On 4 Oct 2017, at 02:26, Igor Mitrofanov <igor.n.mitrofanov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have setup a (private, key-based) Tor hidden service for SSH administration. It works well and leaves no extra open ports to attack.
> 
> If you also take advantage of package updates over Tor (via the local SOCKS5 proxy that any Tor instance provides)

We don't recommend that you run a client and hidden service on the same
tor instance. It makes traffic correlation easier, because your traffic
all goes through the same guard. (There are probably some other reasons,
too.)

Depending on your threat model, this might not be an issue for you.

T

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Tim / teor

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