[tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-10 Thread Mike Fikuart
Hi Tor-Talk, I am doing an MSc in Telecommunications and Network at City University, London. For my dissertation I am looking at the limitations of scaling Tor up and how the limits could be overcome and should state that I am not a programmer, though would love to be involved in Tor’s progres

[tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-10 Thread Mike Fikuart
Hi Tor-Talk, I am doing an MSc in Telecommunications and Network at City University, London. For my dissertation I am looking at the limitations of scaling Tor up and how the limits could be overcome and should state that I am not a programmer, though would love to be involved in Tor’s progres

[tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-10 Thread Mike Fikuart
Hi Tor-Talk, I am doing an MSc in Telecommunications and Network at City University, London. For my dissertation I am looking at the limitations of scaling Tor up and how the limits could be overcome and should state that I am not a programmer, though would love to be involved in Tor’s progres

[tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-17 Thread Mike Fikuart
Hi Tor-Talk, I am interested in the scaling limits to Tor and what present the bottlenecks to Tor’s future expansion. I have looked into the documentation available and see that Tor has far exceeded initial projections through structural changes to the relationships between clients, DA’s and r

Re: [tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-18 Thread Virgil Griffith
This isn't exactly what you asked, but read the first few sections of this where it looks for bottlenecks. http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf -V On Sunday, August 17, 2014, Mike Fikuart wrote: > Hi Tor-Talk, > > I am interested in the scaling limits to Tor and what present

Re: [tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-18 Thread George Kadianakis
Mike Fikuart writes: > Hi Tor-Talk, > > I am interested in the scaling limits to Tor and what present the > bottlenecks to Tor’s future expansion. I have looked into the > documentation available and see that Tor has far exceeded initial > projections through structural changes to the relationsh

Re: [tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-18 Thread Mike Fikuart
Thanks, George. Interesting proposal and an area I hadn’t considered to be an issue. I will look again at the HS process and review links in more detail. Yours sincerely Mike Fikuart IEng MIET Mobile: 07801 070580 Office: 020 33840275 Blog: mikefikuart Skype: mikefikuart Twitter: mikefikuart<

Re: [tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-18 Thread Mike Fikuart
Thanks Virgil. I wasn’t directly what I was after; however it was an informative read and as with this subject grows the background knowledge that will come to use in the future. I did get an interesting link from Johan Pouweise on scalability that his students published this year http://arxi

Re: [tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-18 Thread isis
Mike Fikuart transcribed 4.8K bytes: > Thanks Virgil. I wasn’t directly what I was after; however it was an > informative read and as with this subject grows the background knowledge that > will come to use in the future. I did get an interesting link from Johan > Pouweise on scalability that

Re: [tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-18 Thread Mike Fikuart
Isis, brilliant response! Some good bedtime reading to do, but just the track I was needing. Thanks for the support! Yours sincerely Mike Fikuart > On 18 Aug 2014, at 23:58, "isis" wrote: > > Mike Fikuart transcribed 4.8K bytes: >> Thanks Virgil. I wasn’t directly what I was after; however

Re: [tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-18 Thread isis
isis transcribed 6.8K bytes: > Mike Fikuart transcribed 4.8K bytes: > > Thanks Virgil. I wasn’t directly what I was after; however it was an > > informative read and as with this subject grows the background knowledge > > that will come to use in the future. I did get an interesting link from

Re: [tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-18 Thread Prateek Mittal
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:10 PM, isis wrote: > BTW, if anyone has found/written more recent, worthwhile papers on > this topic, we'd love to hear about them! > > The Pisces protocol was written in the context of scalable anonymity using unstructured social network topologies, but I think its idea

Re: [tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-18 Thread Scott MacLeod
Hi All, In thinking about scaling Tor, what plans do you have for all 7,106 + languages in the world? MIT OCW-centric, CC World University and School is planning to be in all of these languages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages - as well as in all 242 countries - http://worldunive

Re: [tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/19/14, isis wrote: > Mike Fikuart transcribed 4.8K bytes: >> A question raised in Tor-Design (section 9) is, "if clients can no longer >> have a complete picture of the network, how can they perform discovery >> while preventing attackers from manipulating or exploiting gaps in their >> knowl