[tor-dev] Pluggable Transports and rate limiting

2013-09-10 Thread George Kadianakis
Hey Yawning (and tor-dev), a topic that we will soon need to consider seriously is rate limiting of pluggable transports. For example, Obfsproxy at the moment does not understand rate limiting and will happily read and write as many bytes as needed. After some discussions in IRC and #3587, we

Re: [tor-dev] Pluggable Transports and rate limiting

2013-09-10 Thread Andreas Krey
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:17:12 +, George Kadianakis wrote: Hey Yawning (and tor-dev), a topic that we will soon need to consider seriously is rate limiting of pluggable transports. For example, Obfsproxy at the moment does not understand rate limiting and will happily read and write as

Re: [tor-dev] Pluggable Transports and rate limiting

2013-09-10 Thread George Kadianakis
Andreas Krey a.k...@gmx.de writes: On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:17:12 +, George Kadianakis wrote: Hey Yawning (and tor-dev), a topic that we will soon need to consider seriously is rate limiting of pluggable transports. For example, Obfsproxy at the moment does not understand rate limiting

Re: [tor-dev] Pluggable Transports and rate limiting

2013-09-10 Thread Yawning Angel
On 2013-09-10 05:34, George Kadianakis wrote: BTW, posting here two more PT-rate-limiting ideas (instead of the currently proposed RATE_LIMIT command) proposed by Andreas and Lunar in IRC: * PTs calculate their overhead and send a fudge factor to Tor when they start up (for example, if an