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| author | Sebastian Hahn <sebastian@torproject.org> | 2011-04-26 05:07:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Sebastian Hahn <sebastian@torproject.org> | 2011-04-26 05:08:32 +0200 |
| commit | 4c789ec08c8d52c3aab3ab775a86fe2350d584b5 (patch) | |
| tree | c04a01d4db277385f74f1740e3254730796ad7d5 /changes | |
| parent | f3b58dfa53d87656f558a97bc28a333bdea06017 (diff) | |
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Don't leak the local hostname in relay nicknames
Fixes bug 2979, reported by tagnaq.
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diff --git a/changes/bug2979 b/changes/bug2979 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fe1f45fe09 --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/bug2979 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ + o Minor bugfixes: + - If the Nickname configuration option wasn't given, Tor used to pick + a nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay. + Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the + "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic + behaviour: It leaks information about the hostname without being + useful at all. Bugfix on tor-0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced the + Unnamed nickname. Fixes bug 2979, reported by tagnaq. + |