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Are malicious exit nodes actively blocked by the project?
by hackerboos 12y ago
Are malicious exit nodes actively blocked by the project?
- belorn 12y agoYes. The list of tor nodes are handled by a small list of directory authorities. They vote on a list, which then each client tally in order to create a list called consensus. Since the number of directory authorities are few, bad nodes get quite fast blocked. If you want to see nodes that are blocked, http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ looks to be a good site. There has also been several research projects which has explored different avenues for finding bad nodes, and the TOR Project created a few years ago a python project which incorporated most those methods to automatically scan for malicious nodes (https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torflow/trunk/README https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torflow/trunk/README).