On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 9:10 PM David Fifield wrote:
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> Linus Nordberg and I will have a paper at FOCI this summer on the
> special way we run tor on the Snowflake bridges to permit better
> scaling. It discusses the two workarounds from the post below, namely a
> shim for predictable ExtORPort a
Linus Nordberg and I will have a paper at FOCI this summer on the
special way we run tor on the Snowflake bridges to permit better
scaling. It discusses the two workarounds from the post below, namely a
shim for predictable ExtORPort auth, and disabling onion key rotation.
This setup has been in pl
After the blocking of Tor in Russia in December 2022, the number of
Snowflake users rapidly increased. Eventually the tor process became the
limiting factor for performance, using all of one CPU core.
In a thread on tor-relays, we worked out a design where we run multiple
instances of tor on the s
