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Closed (moved) Sampled guards are not re-weighted when a new consensus arrives
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  • Closed (moved) Issue created by teor

    Replying to [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23318#comment:5]:

    It's not only case when code bypassing limits, as noticed by pastly in IRC. Guard nodes weights only if new guard added by entry_guards_expand_sample. Sample guard or subsets never being re-weighted: once sampled non-Exit Guard will be used as Exit+Guard (if operator change it policy) by client.

    This is probably the behaviour we want: re-weighting based on the latest consensus allows Guard operators to detect exactly when a client downloads the next consensus (because it would stop using that Guard).

    That said, keeping old weights might allow attacks based on knowing the weightings in a really old consensus.

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