[tor-dev] Towards Congestion Control Deployment in Tor-like Networks

2020-06-02 Thread Mike Perry
This novelette-length mail is meant to provide the background information necessary to understand choices in congestion control deployment for Tor. Much of this background information won't be included in my planned Tor Proposal, which will hopefully be much shorter, but the choices made there

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 316: FlashFlow: A Secure Speed Test for Tor (Parent Proposal)

2020-06-02 Thread Matt Traudt
On 6/2/20 3:01 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:48 PM Matt Traudt wrote: >> > > Hi! I've got some comments on the FlashFlow proposal; I'll start with > the ones that I think are most important, so that we can try to get > them out of the way. > > First off, I'm

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 316: FlashFlow: A Secure Speed Test for Tor (Parent Proposal)

2020-06-02 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:48 PM Matt Traudt wrote: > Hi! I've got some comments on the FlashFlow proposal; I'll start with the ones that I think are most important, so that we can try to get them out of the way. First off, I'm concerned about the approach where measurers get to consume a

Re: [tor-dev] Moving key material out of the main tor process

2020-06-02 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:46 AM Linus Nordberg wrote: > > Hi, > > tl;dr How to move key material out of tor? > > ## The idea of a vault component > > ahf and others in the network team have been discussing the > possibility of a "vault" component in tor, for moving private keys out > of the tor

Re: [tor-dev] Moving key material out of the main tor process

2020-06-02 Thread Linus Nordberg
David Goulet wrote Fri, 29 May 2020 09:41:51 -0400: >> ## The idea of a vault component >> >> ahf and others in the network team have been discussing the >> possibility of a "vault" component in tor, for moving private keys out >> of the tor process. Separating secret key material from the code