Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 257: Refactoring authorities and taking parts offline

2015-10-27 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 28 Oct 2015, at 04:38, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > * Authorities serve as a location for distributing consensus > documents, descriptors, extrainfo documents, and > microdescriptors... > > * To directory mirrors. (BW?, PUB?, LOC?) > > * To clients that do n

[tor-dev] Proposal 257: Refactoring authorities and taking parts offline

2015-10-27 Thread Nick Mathewson
Filename: 257-hiding-authorities.txt Title: Refactoring authorities and taking parts offline Authors: Nick Mathewson, Andrea Shepard Created: 2015-10-27 Status: Draft 1. Introduction Directory authorities are critical to the Tor network, and represent a DoS target to anybody trying to disab