Re: [tor-dev] Anonymous Local Count Statistics Using PCSA - GSoC

2017-04-01 Thread Florian Tschorsch
Hi Samir, this sounds like an interesting summer project. Since you are interested in using PCSA, our work on privacy-preserving statistics, which actually develops a privacy-enhanced version of PCSA, might be helpful. We also propose it as a way to collect distributed statistics. In our HotP

Re: [tor-dev] SENDME cells

2014-07-09 Thread Florian Tschorsch
Dear Gareth, actually the sentence is correct. Every OR maintains a package window and a deliver window for each traversing circuit. You can check the source code: In or.h the circuit_t struct definition declares a package_window and a deliver_window variable. The reason is that Tor's circuits

Re: [tor-dev] Statistics on fraction of connections used uni-/bidirectionally

2013-12-16 Thread Florian Tschorsch
Hi Karsten, we still believe that the statistics are useful. However we also agree with Rob that since more and more relays report data the scatter plot becomes confusing. I think some kind of aggregation would be helpful. In one of our previous papers we assessed the performance impact of simul