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On 6 Nov 2015, at 17:36, Alec Muffett <<a href="mailto:alecm@fb.com" class="">alecm@fb.com</a>> wrote:
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<div class="">My plans for Onion scaling are approximately as follows:<br class="">
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1) Remove unnecessary privacy hops / deploy RSOS (in progress)<br class="">
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2) OnionBalance: Merge introduction points (IPs) from multiple daemons into one descriptor (possible issue: there is a hardcoded limit of 3x IPs?)<br class="">
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3) Steven Murdoch / Ceysun Sucu research: Implement distinct OnionBalance descriptors at each (6?) point on the HSDir ring</div>
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<div class="">Ceysun now has a blog post summarising option 3 here:</div>
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<div class="">Full details are in his thesis:</div>
<div class=""> <a href="https://www.benthamsgaze.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/sucu-torscaling.pdf" class="">https://www.benthamsgaze.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/sucu-torscaling.pdf</a> </div>
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<div class="">Best wishes,</div>
<div class="">Steven</div>
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