Ah, good point. So, it seems N_PRIMARY_GUARDS is an argument to the algorithm.
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Ola Bini writes:
> Hi,
>
>> So maybe the simple answer here is that if prop247 is enabled (this could be
>> a
>> NumGuards=N argument to our algorithm), instead of always returning the first
>> reachable guard, we instead build a list of the first N reachable guards, and
>> randomly choose one o
Ola Bini writes:
> Hey,
>
> Maybe I misunderstood the hard part - I thought the problem was to
> choose the NUM longlived vanguards - since there are only ever NUM
> possible guards at each level, not to choose which one to use among
> the NUM guards. For the first, it felt like using 259 would w
Ola Bini writes:
> Hey,
>
> Thanks- this is very helpful.
>
> When it comes to vanguards, I've already read through the
> proposal. I'm not exactly sure I understand how much different 259
> would need to be to support the 247 needs. It seems we should be able
> to just run the algorithm NUM_SECO
Ola Bini writes:
> Hi again,
>
> Two questions - first, hopefully I simple one. What are directory
> guards, exactly?
>
> Second, we found a weird behavior in the current code
> base. Specifically, when Tor first downloads the microdescriptors, it
> chooses 3 guards for this with the V2Dir flag.
