Block directory authorities, is it possible?

[Ringo Kamens]

You can get a list of servers from a friend or online and manually
import them into tor. Also, you might want to consider anonymous socks
servers to route your traffic through that Golden Shield couldn't
block.
Ringo Kamens

On 1/12/07, Shava Nerad <shava at freehaven.net> wrote:
> At 04:41 AM 1/12/2007, Pei Hanru wrote:
> >Well, Tor will finally recover here when the fibers are repaired. But
> >this reminds me of a possible attack against the Tor network, say, if
> >the notorious Great Firewall of China blocks *all* the connections to
> >*all* the directory authorities (currently 5 I believe), then Tor will
> >will become completely useless in China. Considering the number of
> >directory authorities, this doesn't seem to be infeasible. (In fact, I
> >think this is easy to some extent.)
> >
> >Am I understanding correctly? Are there any actions Tor can take? After
> >all, we cannot simply assume this will not happen in the future.
>
> You are correct that this is a vulnerability now.  We're developing a
> blocking resistance strategy that should ameliorate this
> risk.  Perhaps one of the developers will comment on this further.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Shava Nerad
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