Re: [tor-dev] Walking onions status update: week 3 notes

2020-03-29 Thread teor
Hi Nick, This is from week 3: > On 30 Mar 2020, at 07:16, Nick Mathewson wrote: > >> There's a faster calculation and more efficient encoding for >> Weighted, because there's a common factor in each POS() >> calculation: >> (1 << 32) / total_weight >> >> If we remove that factor, we end up wit

Re: [tor-dev] Walking onions status update: week 3 notes

2020-03-29 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:09 PM teor wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > On 21 Mar 2020, at 05:38, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > Walking Onions: week 3 update > > As you might recall, the SNIPs need to be nice and small, but they > need to be completely self-contained. The ENDIVE, on the other > hand, needs to

Re: [tor-dev] Walking onions status update: week 3 notes

2020-03-20 Thread teor
Hi Nick, > On 21 Mar 2020, at 05:38, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > Walking Onions: week 3 update > > As you might recall, the SNIPs need to be nice and small, but they > need to be completely self-contained. The ENDIVE, on the other > hand, needs to be diff-friendly, and compressible. Relays nee

[tor-dev] Walking onions status update: week 3 notes

2020-03-20 Thread Nick Mathewson
Walking Onions: week 3 update On our current grant from the zcash foundation, I'm working on a full specification for the Walking Onions design. I'm going to try to send out these updates once a week. My previous updates are linked below: Week 1: formats, preliminaries, git repositories, b