Re: [tor-dev] Walking Onions status update: week 2 notes

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:21 AM teor teor@riseup.net wrote:

Hi Nick,

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On 14 Mar 2020, at 14:44, teor teor@riseup.net wrote:

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• As I work, I'm identifying other issues in tor that stand in the way of a good efficient walking onion implementation that will require other follow-up work. This week I ran into a need for non-TAP-based v2 hidden services, and a need for a more efficient family encoding. I'm keeping track of these in my outline file.

Here's another issue you might want to consider:

Currently, new relays get in the consensus as soon as:

• they post their descriptors, and
• a majority of authorities can contact their ORPorts.

That means clients and relays waste a whole bunch of bandwidth downloading consensus info and descriptors for relays with very low weights.

Instead, we could have two documents:

Thanks for this! This dovetails nicely with some of the voting design work I'm up to right now.