Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 271 - improvements

2019-11-26 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 5:43 AM Florentin Rochet wrote: > I've opened a trac ticket for 1) > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32088 (This is now proposal 310.) ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torprojec

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 271 - improvements

2019-10-15 Thread Florentin Rochet
Hello, On 14/10/2019 13:29, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 07:56:29AM +, Florentin Rochet wrote: >> We are suggesting a straightforward fix to the problem, which >> is, roughly speaking, to choose primary guards in the order in which >> they were sampled. > This looks like

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 271 - improvements

2019-10-14 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 07:56:29AM +, Florentin Rochet wrote: > In short, Prop 271 causes guards to > be selected with probabilities different than their weights due to the > way it samples many guards and then chooses primary guards from that > sample. Agreed. As you say, Paul identified

[tor-dev] Proposal 271 - improvements

2019-10-14 Thread Florentin Rochet
Hello, I'm doing research on improving Tor security via path selection. This work is with Ryan Wails, Aaron Johnson, Prateek Mittal, and Olivier Pereira. In our work, we ran into load-balancing problems that affected our experiments. We identified the problem to originate in the specification