Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 207: Directory guards

2012-10-15 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Mike Perry wrote: [...] > Again, this experimentation is already done. It's quite clear that > adding more objects to the world of Guard activity reduces traffic > fingerprinting accuracy, regardless of if that activity is concurrent > with client traffic or not.

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 207: Directory guards

2012-10-15 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@alum.mit.edu): > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@alum.mit.edu): > > > >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Mike Perry > >> wrote: > >> > Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@torproject.org): > >> >> Discussion:

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 207: Directory guards

2012-10-15 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@alum.mit.edu): > >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Mike Perry wrote: >> > Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@torproject.org): >> >> Discussion: >> >> >> >>The rule that the set of guards and the set of dire

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 207: Directory guards

2012-10-12 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@alum.mit.edu): > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@torproject.org): > >> Discussion: > >> > >>The rule that the set of guards and the set of directory guards need to > >>be disjoint, and the rule that m

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 207: Directory guards

2012-10-12 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@torproject.org): >> Discussion: >> >>The rule that the set of guards and the set of directory guards need to >>be disjoint, and the rule that multiple directory guards need to be >>providing descripto

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 207: Directory guards

2012-10-12 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@torproject.org): > Filename: 207-directory-guards.txt > Title: Directory guards > > Motivation: > >When we added guard nodes to resist profiling attacks, we made it so >that clients won't build general-purpose circuits through just any >node. But cli

[tor-dev] Proposal 207: Directory guards

2012-10-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
Filename: 207-directory-guards.txt Title: Directory guards Author: Nick Mathewson Created: 10-Oct-2012 Status: Open Target: 0.2.4.x Motivation: When we added guard nodes to resist profiling attacks, we made it so that clients won't build general-purpose circuits through just any node.