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=== AUTONAMING FOR TOR ===
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Tor directory authorities may maintain a binding of server identities
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(their long term identity key) and nicknames. In their status documents
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they may for each router they know tell if this is indeed the owner of
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that nickname or not.
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This toolset allows automatic maintaining of a binding list of nicknames
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to identity keys, implementing Tor proposal 123[1].
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The rules are simple:
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- A router claiming to be Bob is named (i.e. added to the binding list)
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if there currently does not exist a different binding for that
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nickname, the router has been around for a bit (2 weeks), no other
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router has used that nickname in a while (1 month).
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- A binding is removed if the server that owns it has not been seen
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in a long time (6 months).
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=== REQUIREMENTS ===
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* ruby, and its postgres DBI interface (Debian packages: ruby, ruby1.8, libdbi-ruby1.8, libdbd-pg-ruby1.8)
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* postgres (tested with >= 8.1)
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* cron
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=== SETUP ===
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* copy this tree some place, like into a 'auto-naming' directory in your Tor's
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data directory
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* create a database and a user, modifying db-config.rb accordingly
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* initialize the database by executing the sql statements in create-db.sql
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* setup a cronjob that feeds the current consensus to the process-consensus
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script regularly.
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* once the database is sufficiently populated, maybe a month or so after the
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previous step, setup a cronjob to regularly build the binding list using
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the build-approved-routers script. You probably want to append a manually
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managed list of rejections to that file and give it to tor as its
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"approved-routers" file.
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The Sample-Makefile and Sample-crontab demonstrate the method used at tor26.
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1. https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/tor/trunk/doc/spec/proposals/123-autonaming.txt
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Copyright (c) 2007 Peter Palfrader
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
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OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
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SOFTWARE.
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