Re: [tor-dev] Scaling tor for a global population

2014-09-30 Thread Nikita Borisov
R because it is much more efficient and because collusion among your three guards was already a significant problem. With the move to a single guard, that argument no longer makes as much sense. We do have an analysis in the paper of the computational PIR scenario, but it does impose significantly

Re: [tor-dev] Scaling tor for a global population

2014-09-30 Thread Nikita Borisov
t; conservative.) You can make this even lower because every PIR query returns a block which is roughly square root the size of the entire database; you would only need to have a signature on each block. - Nikita -- Nikita Borisov - http://hatswitch.org/~

Re: [tor-dev] Scaling tor for a global population

2014-09-29 Thread Nikita Borisov
n 3% of the overall bandwidth. I think cutting all of them off might be overkill, but even if you did, you would not make a Sybil attack appreciably harder. - Nikita -- Nikita Borisov - http://hatswitch.org/~nikita/ Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Tel: +1 (217) 244-5385,

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 236 and the guardiness of a guard

2014-08-01 Thread Nikita Borisov
into one of the two categories; my feeling is that this would be a significant performance hit. - Nikita -- Nikita Borisov - http://hatswitch.org/~nikita/ Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Tel: +1 (217) 244-5385, Office: 460 CSL _

Re: [tor-dev] Feedback on recent Globe improvements

2014-04-02 Thread Nikita Borisov
network. Would that be hard to add? Thanks, - Nikita -- Nikita Borisov - http://hatswitch.org/~nikita/ Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Tel: +1 (217) 244-5385, Office: 460 CSL ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org h