Re: [tor-dev] Information on the handling of relays churn

2018-09-28 Thread Adrien Luxey
Dear David, Thanks for the information. I did skim through the first paper a while back, but there is indeed more valuable info than meets the eye inside these studies. Thanks for your advice, Adrien On 27/09/2018 19:30, David Fifield wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 08:21:06PM +0200, Adrien Lu

Re: [tor-dev] Information on the handling of relays churn

2018-09-27 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 06:49:37PM +, alex_y...@yahoo.ca wrote: > It seems that your idea can basically be summarized as "implement > circuit resumption". This is likely not inherently difficult to > implement, except for the problem of knowing when to expire old > sessions. If you just use the

Re: [tor-dev] Information on the handling of relays churn

2018-09-27 Thread alex_y_xu
Quoting Adrien Luxey (2018-09-27 18:21:06) > Dear Tor developers, > > As a PhD student in distributed systems, I am studying onion routing. > > We would like to investigate an onion routing system that would run on users > devices, i.e. a lot of nodes with crappy bandwidth and intermittent > con

Re: [tor-dev] Information on the handling of relays churn

2018-09-27 Thread David Fifield
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 08:21:06PM +0200, Adrien Luxey wrote: > • To which extent would you say that Tor is resilient to churn? What would > be > the effects of a massive churn of relays? Where would be the bottleneck? About churn specifically, the Sybil research of Winter, Ensafi, Loesing,

[tor-dev] Information on the handling of relays churn

2018-09-27 Thread Adrien Luxey
Dear Tor developers, As a PhD student in distributed systems, I am studying onion routing. We would like to investigate an onion routing system that would run on users devices, i.e. a lot of nodes with crappy bandwidth and intermittent connection. To compare against Tor, I have been looking for i