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Filename: 107-uptime-sanity-checking.txt
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Title: Uptime Sanity Checking
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Version:
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Last-Modified:
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Author: Kevin Bauer & Damon McCoy
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Created: 8-March-2007
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Status: Closed
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Overview:
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This document describes how to cap the uptime that is used when computing
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which routers are marked as stable such that highly stable routers cannot
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be displaced by malicious routers that report extremely high uptime
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values.
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This is similar to how bandwidth is capped at 1.5MB/s.
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Motivation:
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It has been pointed out that an attacker can displace all stable nodes and
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entry guard nodes by reporting high uptimes. This is an easy fix that will
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prevent highly stable nodes from being displaced.
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Security implications:
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It should decrease the effectiveness of routing attacks that report high
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uptimes while not impacting the normal routing algorithms.
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Specification:
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So we could patch Section 3.1 of dir-spec.txt to say:
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"Stable" -- A router is 'Stable' if it is running, valid, not
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hibernating, and either its uptime is at least the median uptime for
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known running, valid, non-hibernating routers, or its uptime is at
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least 30 days. Routers are never called stable if they are running
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a version of Tor known to drop circuits stupidly. (0.1.1.10-alpha
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through 0.1.1.16-rc are stupid this way.)
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Compatibility:
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There should be no compatiblity issues due to uptime capping.
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Implementation:
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Implemented and merged into dir-spec in 0.2.0.0-alpha-dev (r9788).
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Discussion:
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Initially, this proposal set the maximum at 60 days, not 30; the 30 day
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limit and spec wording was suggested by Roger in an or-dev post on 9 March
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2007.
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This proposal also led to 108-mtbf-based-stability.txt
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