Hello Mike,<br><br>Thank you for your concern. <br><br>>"No, you can only select 'Dual' flagged exit nodes (Exit+Guard) for the guard position. <br>>Hence it doesn't make sense to have a Wge weight."<br>
<br>You said that "only" but, depends on your changes for dir-spec, it seems that we can select dual flagged, non-flagged and guard-flagged nodes for the guard position as below;<br><br>Wgg - Weight for Guard-flagged nodes in the guard position<br>
Wgm - Weight for non-flagged nodes in the guard Position<br>Wgd - Weight for Guard+Exit-flagged nodes in the guard Position<br><br>Therefore i couldn't understand why there isn't Wge integer value on your changes. I think it seems possible that we can select exit-flagged nodes in guard position if guards are scarce. What do you think?<br>
<br>On the otherhand did you simulate your changes? If yes, could you share results of the simulations? <br><br>Thanks in advance.<br>ilter<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Mike Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikeperry@fscked.org">mikeperry@fscked.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thus spake ilter yüksel (<a href="mailto:ilteryuksel@gmail.com">ilteryuksel@gmail.com</a>):<br>
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> Hello Everyone,<br>
><br>
> Firstly thank all of you so much for your concern. I really appreciate all<br>
> effort which for anonymity by open source.<br>
><br>
> Mike, I'm reading and trying to understand your changes on path and<br>
> dir-spec. Could you say please why there isn't "Wge" integer value on list?<br>
> Can't we select a node with exit flag for guard position?<br>
<br>
</div>No, you can only select 'Dual' flagged exit nodes (Exit+Guard) for the<br>
guard position. Hence it doesn't make sense to have a Wge weight.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Also could you please explain what is the condition of below statement on<br>
> path-spec? ;<br>
><br>
> "If we're using Guard nodes, the first node must be a Guard (see 5 below )"<br>
><br>
> It says see 5 below but even i've read 5. section i couldn't get what is the<br>
> condition of this statement; "if we're using Guard nodes".<br>
<br>
</div>In normal operation, Tor uses Guard nodes. If the user configured it<br>
to use bridges, Tor behaves as if those bridges were its guard nodes.<br>
If the user has specified a strict set of EntryNodes, Tor uses those<br>
as if they were guard nodes.<br>
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Mad Computer Scientist<br>
<a href="http://fscked.org" target="_blank">fscked.org</a> evil labs<br>
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