[tor-relays] spurios warning about using the nickname instead of the key

Sebastian Hahn mail at sebastianhahn.net
Thu Oct 12 19:09:41 UTC 2017


Hi there,

> On 12. Oct 2017, at 20:43, Scott Bennett <bennett at sdf.org> wrote:
> teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 12 Oct 2017, at 13:21, Toralf F?rster <toralf.foerster at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>> Hash: SHA256
>>> 
>>>> On 10/11/2017 10:08 AM, Dylan Issa wrote:
>>>> Did you set MyFamily using nicknames of the key? 
>>>> Because if nickname, change it to key is basically what it?s saying.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> No,
>>> 
>>> both Tor processes share this common config file:
>>> 
>>> grep -i famil /etc/tor/torrc*/*
>>> 
>>> /etc/tor/torrc.d/00_common:MyFamily 1AF72E8906E6C49481A791A6F8F84F8DFEBBB2BA,6EABEBF38CE7E3DF672C4DB01383606FE3EB2215
> 
>     Doessn't each fingerprint need to start with a $ character?  Otherwise
> it's just a really long nickname, right?

No; nicknames are at most 20 characters long.

Cheers
Sebastian


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