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List:       tor-talk
Subject:    Re: Random names for tor nodes?
From:       Nick Mathewson <nickm () freehaven ! net>
Date:       2007-10-26 22:29:43
Message-ID: 20071026222943.GB8364 () totoro ! wangafu ! net
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Andrew Del Vecchio wrote:
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> What if furture versions of Tor just randomly assigned a name, like
> Tor23432234 to ORs that operators didn't name manually? This would
> eliminate the multiple instances of "Unnamed" named routers out there
> and wouldn't require any protocol level work-arounds.

The fingerprints do this just fine: if don't mind using a unique and
hard-to-remember nickname, just refer to it by its hexadecimal
fingerprint.

yrs,
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Nick Mathewson

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