Re: [tor-talk] How to select the path using the weights?

2011-05-15 Thread katmagic
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 21:42 -0400, Lu Yu wrote: > I know how these weights (Wgg, Wgm .) are calculated. But then what? > > How to choose the path using the weights? My understanding is to > calculate the weighted sum of the bandwidth of each possible circuits > (Isn't the computation too muc

Re: [tor-talk] detecting harmful relays

2011-05-15 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:48:00PM +0200, tagnaq wrote: > "Not reporting version is actively harmful" [1] > [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2980 > Well, it's harmful in two ways. First is that clients will mistakenly ask for service from relays that don't know how to provide i

Re: [tor-talk] "drop all vulnerable relays from the consensus"

2011-05-15 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:38:45PM +0200, tagnaq wrote: > "If someone publishes or demonstrates a code-exec exploit [...] we > should drop all vulnerable relays from the consensus" [1] > > - Does Tor provide Authority Directories with an easy way to reject/drop > relays from the consensus based on

[tor-talk] detecting harmful relays

2011-05-15 Thread tagnaq
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, "Not reporting version is actively harmful" [1] - - Is it possible to detect if someone is harming the Tor network in this way? - - Are you already running such scanners or is there the Exit Scanner only? thanks, tagnaq [1] https://trac.torp

[tor-talk] "drop all vulnerable relays from the consensus"

2011-05-15 Thread tagnaq
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, "If someone publishes or demonstrates a code-exec exploit [...] we should drop all vulnerable relays from the consensus" [1] - - Does Tor provide Authority Directories with an easy way to reject/drop relays from the consensus based on the platf