[tor-dev] Proposal 360: Limiting HSDesc size and amplification

2025-04-09 Thread Nick Mathewson via tor-dev
https://spec.torproject.org/proposals/360-hsdesc-len-limit.html This proposal describes a mechanism for preventing some kinds of traffic-flooding attacks by HSDirs. It's based on some of Mike Perry's work on Proposal 349. Please feel free to open tickets on gitlab, or to discuss here. Discussion

[tor-dev] Proposal 359: Counter Galois Onion, Updated

2025-04-09 Thread Nick Mathewson via tor-dev
https://spec.torproject.org/proposals/359-cgo-redux.html This proposal instantiates a new approach for encrypting relay cells on circuits, to prevent certain kinds of tagging attacks, to improve forward secrecy, and more. It is based on research by Jean Paul Degabriele, Alessandro Melloni, Jean-P