Thank you, Proposal 140 sounds perfect for what I need, that would minimize traffic quite a bit! I see some code for it at https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/log/?qt=grep&q=prop140 , I'm guessing it's not complete yet.
Thanks again, Razvan On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 12:43 PM, nusenu <nus...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > > I am working on a project to create very small Tor nodes on embedded > > devices connected over LTE or 3G. > > since you are concerned about bw usage I assume you talk about tor > clients not relays. > > > I have it working fine with OpenWRT and > > just 128MB of RAM, but the main issue is now the amount of data needed to > > download the consensus. The consensus files appear to be around 2.3MB at > > the moment and I think the default is to re-download every 3 hours, so > > that's 18.4MB/day or 552MB/month. Is there any way to reduce this while > > still maintaining good citizenship on the Tor network? Are there any > > recommended options for low-bandwidth nodes? > > There is an ongoing effort to significantly reduce the bw overhead for > tor clients on metered networks. > > Some improvements are supposed to land in tor 0.3.1.x. > > > Relevant proposals: > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/ > 140-consensus-diffs.txt > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/ > 274-rotate-onion-keys-less.txt > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/ > 275-md-published-time-is-silly.txt > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/ > 276-lower-bw-granularity.txt > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/ > 277-detect-id-sharing.txt > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/ > 278-directory-compression-scheme-negotiation.txt > > > > > > > > > -- > https://mastodon.social/@nusenu > https://twitter.com/nusenu_ > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev > >
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