Re: [tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal draft: The move to a single guard node

2014-09-17 Thread George Kadianakis
Nicholas Hopper writes: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:35 AM, George Kadianakis > wrote: >> A patch for the proposal would be useful. If you don't have time to do >> it, just tell me and I will do it myself. > > Here's a patch: > https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~hopper/single-guard-node.patch Just a

Re: [tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal draft: The move to a single guard node

2014-04-26 Thread George Kadianakis
Nicholas Hopper writes: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:35 AM, George Kadianakis > wrote: >> A patch for the proposal would be useful. If you don't have time to do >> it, just tell me and I will do it myself. > > Here's a patch: > https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~hopper/single-guard-node.patch Thanks

Re: [tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal draft: The move to a single guard node

2014-04-23 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Nicholas Hopper wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:35 AM, George Kadianakis > wrote: >> A patch for the proposal would be useful. If you don't have time to do >> it, just tell me and I will do it myself. > > Here's a patch: > https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~hopper/

Re: [tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal draft: The move to a single guard node

2014-04-17 Thread Nicholas Hopper
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:35 AM, George Kadianakis wrote: > A patch for the proposal would be useful. If you don't have time to do > it, just tell me and I will do it myself. Here's a patch: https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~hopper/single-guard-node.patch -- ---

Re: [tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal draft: The move to a single guard node

2014-04-15 Thread George Kadianakis
Nicholas Hopper writes: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:45 AM, George Kadianakis > wrote: >> I see. That makes sense, I think. > > Good. > >> I will ponder on this a bit more, and then edit the proposal. > > When/if you become convinced, let me know if you want me to draft a patch. > I think it ma

Re: [tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal draft: The move to a single guard node

2014-04-11 Thread Nicholas Hopper
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:45 AM, George Kadianakis wrote: > I see. That makes sense, I think. Good. > I will ponder on this a bit more, and then edit the proposal. When/if you become convinced, let me know if you want me to draft a patch. > (I would like to think a bit more about how accurate

[tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal draft: The move to a single guard node

2014-04-11 Thread George Kadianakis
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:34 AM, George Kadianakis > So, based on your > response, IIUC, the idea is that because young > > guards are underutilized, we want to increase the probability of them > > being chosen in non-guard positions, so that they become more utilized > > till more people pick th

Re: [tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal draft: The move to a single guard node

2014-04-07 Thread Nicholas Hopper
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:34 AM, George Kadianakis > So, based on your response, IIUC, the idea is that because young > guards are underutilized, we want to increase the probability of them > being chosen in non-guard positions, so that they become more utilized > till more people pick them as guar

Re: [tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal draft: The move to a single guard node

2014-04-07 Thread George Kadianakis
Nicholas Hopper writes: > I think I'll have more to say later, but... > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:36 AM, George Kadianakis > wrote: >> 1.3. Age of guard as a factor on guard probabilities >> >>By increasing the guard rotation period we also increase the lack >>of clients for young gua

Re: [tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal draft: The move to a single guard node

2014-03-26 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:57:08AM -0500, Nicholas Hopper wrote: > >We can try to mitigate this phenomenon by giving higher priority to > >young guards to be picked as guards: > > I'm pretty sure this section has it backwards from what was the intent > of the discussion of "guard age" at t

Re: [tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal draft: The move to a single guard node

2014-03-26 Thread Nicholas Hopper
I think I'll have more to say later, but... On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:36 AM, George Kadianakis wrote: > 1.3. Age of guard as a factor on guard probabilities > >By increasing the guard rotation period we also increase the lack >of clients for young guards since clients will rotate guards

[tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal draft: The move to a single guard node

2014-03-26 Thread George Kadianakis
I promised Nick I would have something for him by today's little-t-tor meeting. Here is a draft of the guard node security proposal. Definitely needs more work: Filename: xxx-single-guard-node.txt Title: The move to a single guard node Author: George Kadianakis Created: 2014-03-22 Status: Draft a