Re: [tor-dev] Notes on HS revamping

2013-11-11 Thread George Kadianakis
Kang writes: >> AFAIK, this should also be possible with the current state of HS >> descriptor publishing. >> > > It should be possible, yes, but it's not a serious problem due to the > decentralised nature of hidden service descriptor publishing. > On the other hand I'm under the impression that

Re: [tor-dev] Notes on HS revamping

2013-11-11 Thread Kang
> AFAIK, this should also be possible with the current state of HS > descriptor publishing. > It should be possible, yes, but it's not a serious problem due to the decentralised nature of hidden service descriptor publishing. On the other hand I'm under the impression that there's only a few direc

Re: [tor-dev] Notes on HS revamping

2013-11-11 Thread George Kadianakis
Kang writes: > Here are my thoughts regarding why merging the Hidden Service > directory system and regular directory system is a bad idea. > Thanks for your thoughts. I'm also unsure on whether ditching the hash ring system is a good idea, but here are some comments on your thoughts: > It wou

Re: [tor-dev] Notes on HS revamping

2013-11-10 Thread Kang
Here are my thoughts regarding why merging the Hidden Service directory system and regular directory system is a bad idea. It would mean each directory server effectively has a list of every hidden service in the network. This may or may not be an issue if the descriptors are encrypted. Additiona

Re: [tor-dev] Notes on HS revamping

2013-11-10 Thread George Kadianakis
Nick Mathewson writes: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:18 PM, George Kadianakis > wrote: >> Hey Nick, >> >> these are my notes from when I was writing the HS blog post. I updated >> them a bit with some more stuff. >> >> Might be helpful :) > > Hi, George! Here's the list I came up with. Let's tr

Re: [tor-dev] Notes on HS revamping

2013-10-24 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:18 PM, George Kadianakis wrote: > Hey Nick, > > these are my notes from when I was writing the HS blog post. I updated > them a bit with some more stuff. > > Might be helpful :) Hi, George! Here's the list I came up with. Let's try to merge them, assuming I thought of

Re: [tor-dev] Notes on HS revamping

2013-10-22 Thread Matthew Finkel
Hey George, Thanks for sending this to the list. On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 02:18:01AM +0100, George Kadianakis wrote: > 3.3 What are other anonymous publishing protocols doing here? I2P seems > to be weak here too, according to Grothoff's recent paper. Do you have a link? I found [0] but wan

[tor-dev] Notes on HS revamping

2013-10-16 Thread George Kadianakis
Hey Nick, these are my notes from when I was writing the HS blog post. I updated them a bit with some more stuff. Might be helpful :) """ HS improvements: 1 performance 1.1 reuse IPs (#8239) 1.2 torperf (#8510) 1.3 scaling https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-Oct