Just to play devil's advocate; I see you've listed the benefits, but to make this a more rounded proposal, what about the drawbacks?
On 2 February 2019 16:10:42 GMT, Nathaniel Suchy <m...@lunorian.is> wrote: >Hi, > >This is an informal proposal to make Tor faster. Okay as follows: > >The Tor Network increasingly suffers from the challenge of dealing with >high latency and often slow connection speeds. In an aim to protect >privacy, Tor Browser does not have a persistent cache of web content >meaning it has to be refetched every session. This means if you want to >load a blog with a 10MB Javascript bundle, well you might be waiting a >bit before reading the article. Likewise increasing speed and reducing >latency is extremely important. The TLS 1.2 handshake's phases 2 and 3 >have a total of 3 round trips before any data can be transferred. This >could add 100s of MS of latency as the relays message back and forth >with one another. TLS 1.3 has a feature called 0RTT >(See: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-0-rtt/ ><https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-0-rtt/>), the Tor network >could have considerable speed and performance gains if this is >implemented into Tor. The first benefit is reduced latency because of >handshakes, the second benefit is better performance on the relays >(less handshakes) freeing up relays and making faster sessions. > >I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this. > >Cordially, >Nathaniel Suchy >-- >tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >To unsubscribe or change other settings go to >https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
