Re: [tor-dev] Guard nodes and network down events

2014-08-15 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:47:43PM +0300, George Kadianakis wrote: > Hello friends :) > > This is a post to discuss how Tor should treat its entry guards when > its network goes down. This is part of ticket #12595 [0] which aims to > design better interfaces and data structures for entry guards. >

Re: [tor-dev] Guard nodes and network down events

2014-08-14 Thread Tom Ritter
On 13 August 2014 07:47, George Kadianakis wrote: > The fundamental issue here is that Tor does not have a primitive that > detects whether the network is up or down, since any such primitive > stands out to a network attacker [3]. I'm not certain this is true. Windows and Mac OS detect whether

Re: [tor-dev] Guard nodes and network down events

2014-08-13 Thread David Goulet
On 13 Aug (15:47:43), George Kadianakis wrote: > Hello friends :) > > This is a post to discuss how Tor should treat its entry guards when > its network goes down. This is part of ticket #12595 [0] which aims to > design better interfaces and data structures for entry guards. > > This thread inve

[tor-dev] Guard nodes and network down events

2014-08-13 Thread George Kadianakis
Hello friends :) This is a post to discuss how Tor should treat its entry guards when its network goes down. This is part of ticket #12595 [0] which aims to design better interfaces and data structures for entry guards. This thread investigates what should happen when the network goes down and To