-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > From what I understand, you can start your own dir server if you email > the other dir servers and ask them to trust you. Unless you show > drastically different results there's no reason for them not to.
Nope, no way! You can run a directory *mirror* by storing and forwarding the directory information of authoritative directories to clients. But you cannot simply run your own authoritative directory server and write an email to the Tor ops so that they trust you and add you to the list of authoritative directories. The anonymity of Tor relies to a certain extent on the trustworthiness of the directories. If you (and your friends) could control a majority of the directories and convince clients to use your own, potentially modified directory information, you could pass different router lists to different clients and defeat their anonymity by observing which routers they pick. - --Karsten -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGSihP0M+WPffBEmURAkqIAJ9mK3aOgt7EM2ryG8RN9XBnkXRVqQCfarxf jViK/eCFTQ4KbSix3f2iGmk= =HCy0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----