Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 287: Reduce circuit lifetime without overloading the network.

2017-12-12 Thread Fernando Fernández Mancera
On 12/12/2017 11:34 PM, teor wrote: Is there any reason you picked these values? I have chosen those values because if the user sets a value, I think it is better for this value to be around lower one from the already established. Even so, higher values are included to make it more difficul

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 287: Reduce circuit lifetime without overloading the network.

2017-12-12 Thread teor
> On 13 Dec 2017, at 06:33, Fernando Fernández Mancera > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have updated the proposal 287 taking into account the advice and > comments that you gave me. So please take a look and if you have > something to improve, don't hesitate to let me know. > > Thanks everyone for

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 287: Reduce circuit lifetime without overloading the network.

2017-12-12 Thread Fernando Fernández Mancera
Hi all, I have updated the proposal 287 taking into account the advice and comments that you gave me. So please take a look and if you have something to improve, don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks everyone for the help. :-) ffmancera. --- Filename: 287-reduce

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 287: Reduce circuit lifetime without overloading the network.

2017-12-04 Thread Fernando Fernández Mancera
Hi, Interesting proposal. Please see this: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007517.html And especially this reply: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007518.html It would be very nice if you could glue these into this proposal as well.

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 287: Reduce circuit lifetime without overloading the network.

2017-12-03 Thread s7r
Hello, Fernando Fernández Mancera wrote: [...] > Motivation: > > Currently Tor users are reusing a given circuit for ten minutes (by default) > after it's first used. This time is too long because a malicious Exit relay > can > trace a user's pseudonymous profile, especially if connections from

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 287: Reduce circuit lifetime without overloading the network.

2017-12-01 Thread teor
On 2 Dec 2017, at 04:56, Fernando Fernández Mancera wrote: >> If everybody chooses different amounts of data, that makes them easier to >> identify. > > This reason is why it is not recommended to change the default value, same as > for the MaxCircuitDirtiness parameter, so I will specify it

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 287: Reduce circuit lifetime without overloading the network.

2017-12-01 Thread Fernando Fernández Mancera
Hi teor, Seems like an important proposal, if there is a good argument that a particular amount of data is "safe". I think your research may help with this. Yes, I will try to prove it on the research so I would like to keep the proposal open until the research is finished. If everybody ch

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 287: Reduce circuit lifetime without overloading the network.

2017-11-30 Thread teor
Hi Fernando, Seems like an important proposal, if there is a good argument that a particular amount of data is "safe". I think your research may help with this. If everybody chooses different amounts of data, that makes them easier to identify. > On 1 Dec 2017, at 08:47, Fernando Fernández Mance

[tor-dev] Proposal 287: Reduce circuit lifetime without overloading the network.

2017-11-30 Thread Fernando Fernández Mancera
Hello, I have been working on this proposal for some time and Nick blessed me to send it as Proposal 287. Here is. Filename: 287-reduce-lifetime.txt Title: Reduce circuit lifetime without overloading the network Author: Fernando Fernandez Mancera Created: 30-Nov-2017 Status: Open Motivation: C