I agree with most of what you said regarding the threat of a targeted observer.
What I disagree with is that an adversary running his own relays is less of a
threat. Running relays is trivial, and running 5% of the guards is fairly cheap
(I estimate ~$3000/month (please ask for details)). If you
Hello all,
I came across a blog post that might interest you all. @techdad did a
quick analysis of public images from online black markets (such as Silk
Road et al)[2] from 2011-2015, and came to the following conclusion:
"After parsing hundreds of thousands of images, I came across about
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On 7/18/2015 12:49 AM, A. Johnson wrote:
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> Not having the third guards be selected by every second guard makes
> sense when you consider that the adversary may not be able to
> compromise all relays equally. That was not a consideration I had
> in
> This proposal doubles the default number of IPs and reduces the "cost"
> of being an IP since the probability of being selected is no longer
> bandwidth-weighted. Is this a fair tradeoff for the performance
> improvement?
That seems easy to fix. Make the number of Introduction Points the same a
>> Here's another crazy idea that would potentially bring this Vanguards
>> idea closer to "Virtual Circuits": What if you divided your third-level
>> Vanguards into NUM_SECOND_GUARDS isolated buckets, and mapped exactly
>> one these buckets to each of your second-level guards?
...
>> That way, i
Hello again everyone,
This report covers the period of time that I spent in Washington, DC at the
hidden service meetings. I made excellent progress on this project. On the
10th, for example, I pushed nearly 30 commits. I fixed many significant bugs
and improved many areas that would make the
Nick Mathewson wrote:
> I made the changes conditional on not having GCC, since the GCC syntax
will work with older versions of GCC. (Somebody should check whether
we care about those versions.)
I saw that; from the Changelog:
o Minor features (portability):
- Use C99 variadic macros w
