[tor-relays] Decommissioning a FallbackDir node (punki)

Osservatorio Nessuno tor at osservatorionessuno.org
Fri Oct 4 21:51:30 UTC 2024


Hi,
thanks both for your input.


On 03/10/2024 21:24, boldsuck via tor-relays wrote:
> 
> But:
> FallbackDir can also move to another provider/host. Simply copy the Tor keys
> of the instance to the new host. I've done that several times.
> 

While we could, I would think it is not a great security practice 
migrate keys that were on an old, non updated provider cluster when 
building a new node elsewhere. That would double the risk of someone 
else having the secret keys (old provider, new provider instead of just 
the new provider).

Giulio


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