commit a1935efba2dcaa1888d85284a26e47ed20e3f4e0 Author: Mike Perry mikeperry-git@torproject.org Date: Thu Apr 18 19:27:31 2019 +0000

Bug 30173+29203: Document reduced+disabled padding consensus params --- proposals/254-padding-negotiation.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/proposals/254-padding-negotiation.txt b/proposals/254-padding-negotiation.txt index 087f060..0d14c09 100644 --- a/proposals/254-padding-negotiation.txt +++ b/proposals/254-padding-negotiation.txt @@ -367,6 +367,17 @@ When either global or machine limits are reached, padding is no longer scheduled. The machine simply becomes idle until the overhead drops below the threshold.

+Finally, the consensus can also be used to specify that clients should +use only machines that are flagged as reduced padding, or disable circuit +padding entirely, with the following two parameters: + + * circpad_padding_reduced=1 + - Tells clients to only use padding machines with the + 'reduced_padding_ok' machine condition flag set. + * circpad_padding_disabled=1 + - Tells clients to stop circuit padding immediately, and not negotiate + any further padding machines. + 5.2. Overhead accounting

In order to monitor the quantity of padding to decide if we should alter