George Kadianakis writes:
> George Kadianakis writes:
>
>> ==Guardiness: Yet another external dirauth script==
>>
>>
>>
>
> FWIW, a weasel suggested to me a potentially better solution than the
> iffy summary files.
>
> He suggested parsing consensuses and putting them in an sqlite3
> database.
George Kadianakis writes:
> ==Guardiness: Yet another external dirauth script==
>
> Introduction
>
> One well-known problem with Tor relays, is that Guards will suffer a
> big loss of traffic as soon as they get the Guard flag. This happens
> because clients pick guards every 2-3 months,
> FWIW, turning off validation helps a bit but not too much. For
> example, my laptop parsing 24 consensuses with validation takes 25
> seconds, and if we disable validation it takes 22 seconds.
>
> This means that to reach the rate of 120~ consensuses a second with
> parse_file(), we need to make
>> This should also be possible with the guardiness stuff, as long as you
>> can arrange fresh consensuses to arrive on the second host.
>
> tor supports consensus downloads without being a router, but it's a bit of a
> hack:
>
> A tor instance configured with a DirPort and no ORPort will act as a
George Kadianakis writes:
> Damian Johnson writes:
>
>>> - Q: Why do you slow stem instead of parsing consensuses with Python on
>>> your own?
>>>
>>> This is another part where I might have taken the wrong design
>>> decision, but I decided to not get into the consensus parsing business
>>> an
On 17 Sep 2014, at 22:00 , George Kadianakis wrote:
> Sebastian Hahn writes:
>
>> On 16 Sep 2014, at 16:15, George Kadianakis wrote:
>>
>>> How the guardiness script will be deployed
>>>
>>> The idea is that dirauths will add another script to their crontab
>>> that is called every h
Sebastian Hahn writes:
> On 16 Sep 2014, at 16:15, George Kadianakis wrote:
>> How guardiness works
>> The idea was that the guardiness script will be an external script
>> that is run by Tor in a similar fashion to the bandwidth auth
>> scripts. We chose that because we could write the
Damian Johnson writes:
>> - Q: Why do you slow stem instead of parsing consensuses with Python on your
>> own?
>>
>> This is another part where I might have taken the wrong design
>> decision, but I decided to not get into the consensus parsing business
>> and just rely on stem.
>>
>> This is al
> - Q: Why do you slow stem instead of parsing consensuses with Python on your
> own?
>
> This is another part where I might have taken the wrong design
> decision, but I decided to not get into the consensus parsing business
> and just rely on stem.
>
> This is also because I was hoping to use st
On 16 Sep 2014, at 16:15, George Kadianakis wrote:
> How guardiness works
> The idea was that the guardiness script will be an external script
> that is run by Tor in a similar fashion to the bandwidth auth
> scripts. We chose that because we could write the script in a
> high-level langu
==Guardiness: Yet another external dirauth script==
Introduction
One well-known problem with Tor relays, is that Guards will suffer a
big loss of traffic as soon as they get the Guard flag. This happens
because clients pick guards every 2-3 months, so young guards will not
get picked by o
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