Re: [tor-dev] Simplifying load balancing by removing Guard+Exit?

2015-09-24 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 25 Sep 2015, at 01:33, Mike Perry wrote: > > I also hear from large node operators that it is still the Exit flag > that causes their nodes to really become overloaded, so if that's > actually true, then it's likely that Exit nodes make poor Guards anyway, > especially if Exit bandwidth is

Re: [tor-dev] Desired exit node diversity

2015-09-24 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 24 Sep 2015, at 23:10, Thomas White wrote: > > Signed PGP part > Could we perhaps expand the contact information field in some way? One > thing I was pondering a while ago was a social contact, not just an > email address. I raised a very brief point about this with Virgil in > Paris last y

[tor-dev] Simplifying load balancing by removing Guard+Exit?

2015-09-24 Thread Mike Perry
Hey all, I am playing with the load balancing equations in 3.8.3 in dir-spec.txt (https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree//dir-spec.txt#n2454) in order to account for padding, hidden/onion services, and directory traffic, and I've noticed that the fact that nodes can be both Exits and Guard

Re: [tor-dev] 0.2.8 triage at dev meeting!

2015-09-24 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Isabela wrote: > Hello everyone! > > We are planing on doing a triage session for 0.2.8 release in Berlin! > Below is some guidance of what you can do to prepare for that, also what > you can do if you are planning on being there but want to help build the > releas

Re: [tor-dev] Desired exit node diversity

2015-09-24 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could we perhaps expand the contact information field in some way? One thing I was pondering a while ago was a social contact, not just an email address. I raised a very brief point about this with Virgil in Paris last year, but I think I made it very

[tor-dev] 0.2.8 triage at dev meeting!

2015-09-24 Thread Isabela
Hello everyone! We are planing on doing a triage session for 0.2.8 release in Berlin! Below is some guidance of what you can do to prepare for that, also what you can do if you are planning on being there but want to help build the release. Who should participate? Core Tor developers, obfuscation