Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 342: Decouple hs_interval and SRV lifetime

2023-01-10 Thread Holmes Wilson
Understood and thanks! On Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 11:24 AM Nick Mathewson wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 8:41 AM Holmes Wilson wrote: > >> Apologies if I missed this in the proposal, but what are the benefits of >> this beyond decoupling? Will onion service users see benefits? Or is it >> just

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 342: Decouple hs_interval and SRV lifetime

2023-01-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 8:41 AM Holmes Wilson wrote: > Apologies if I missed this in the proposal, but what are the benefits of > this beyond decoupling? Will onion service users see benefits? Or is it > just about simplifying the code? > There's no immediate benefit to users; it's entirely abou

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 342: Decouple hs_interval and SRV lifetime

2023-01-10 Thread Holmes Wilson
Apologies if I missed this in the proposal, but what are the benefits of this beyond decoupling? Will onion service users see benefits? Or is it just about simplifying the code? On Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 8:22 AM Nick Mathewson wrote: > ``` > Filename: 342-decouple-hs-interval.md > Title: Decoupling

[tor-dev] Proposal 342: Decouple hs_interval and SRV lifetime

2023-01-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
``` Filename: 342-decouple-hs-interval.md Title: Decoupling hs_interval and SRV lifetime Author: Nick Mathewson Created: 9 January 2023 Status: Draft ``` # Motivation and introduction Tor uses shared random values (SRVs) in the consensus to determine positions of relays within a hash ring. Which