Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 258: Denial-of-service resistance for directory authorities

2015-11-05 Thread Tom Ritter
On 29 October 2015 at 11:25, Nick Mathewson wrote: >There are two possible ways a new connection to a directory >authority can be established, directly by a TCP connection to the >DirPort, or tunneled inside a Tor circuit and initiated with a >begindir cell. The client can origina

[tor-dev] Proposal 258: Denial-of-service resistance for directory authorities

2015-10-29 Thread Nick Mathewson
[Here's a new proposal from Andrea. See ticket 4581 for implementation details.] Filename: 258-dirauth-dos.txt Title: Denial-of-service resistance for directory authorities Author: Andrea Shepard Created: 2015-10-27 Status: Open 1. Problem statement The directory authorities are few in numb