I have no say in how/when your relay can be reinstated. But, before you resume any such research from any relay you should consult the Tor Research Safety Board guidelines and then submit to them a request for advice about the research you wish to do. https://research.torproject.org/safetyboard.html
HTH, Paul On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 02:35:29PM -0300, Marcus Danilo Leite Rodrigues wrote: > David, > > My relay was harvesting .onion addresses and I apologize if that breaks any > rule or ethical guideline. > > I'm a Junior Researcher at the Laboratory of Security and Cryptography at > University of Campinas. We were conducting some research on malicious > Hidden Services to study their behavior and how we could design a tool that > could tell malicious and benign Hidden Services apart. > > Because we focus mainly on web pages, we use a crawler to get almost all of > the data we need. However, there are some statistics (such as the size of > the Tor network, how many HSs run HTTP(s) protocol, how many run other > protocols and which protocols do they run, etc) which cannot be obtained > through a crawler. That's why we were harvesting .onion addresses. > > We would run a simple portscan and download the index page, in case it was > running a web server, on a few random addresses we collected. We would also > try and determine the average longevity of those few HSs. However, after > collecting the data we needed for statistical purposes, the .onion > addresses we collected would be deleted and under no circumstances we would > disclose the information we collected on a specific .onion address we > harvested. In addition, we would never target specific harvested HS, but > only a random sample. > > We would like to keep running our relay. We can make this process as > transparent as possible without disclosing any information that would harm > the anonymity of any user. We could also comply with any demands that the > Tor authorities might have. In case that's not possible, we will completely > respect your decision and will no longer harvest .onion addresses. However, > I'd like to ask for our IP address range to be unbanned so that other > people at my university can conduct some other research in the future and > so we can run a regular relay :) > > I appreciate the time you took to address this issue and I'm willing to > answer any questions you may have. > > Much obliged, > Marcus. > > 2017-08-24 12:16 GMT-03:00 David Goulet <dgou...@torproject.org>: > > > On 24 Aug (12:11:47), Marcus Danilo Leite Rodrigues wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > > > I was running a Tor Relay for the past month (fingerprint > > > 71BEBB61D0D35234D57087D035F12971FA315168) > > > at my university and it seems that it got banned somehow. I got messages > > on > > > my log like the following: > > > > > > http status 400 ("Fingerprint is marked rejected -- please contact us?") > > > response from dirserver '171.25.193.9:443'. Please correct. > > > > > > I was hoping to get some information regarding this ban and how I could > > > correct whatever was done wrong in order to get my relay up and running > > > again. > > > > Hello Marcus, > > > > You relay has been found to be harvesting .onion addresses which is > > strictly > > prohibited on the network. > > > > See https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethical-tor-research-guidelines > > > > Were you conducting some research or ? > > > > Thanks for running a relay! > > David > > > > > > > > Best wishes, > > > Marcus Rodrigues. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > tor-relays mailing list > > > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > > > > > -- > > dI6qBwjRAsZuHbMRuPaXkArKESn4fYnY9Gcn/UW8Dlc= > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tor-relays mailing list > > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays