On 3 Jan 2016, at 12:18, Ryan Carboni <ryacko@gmail.com> wrote:

And yet the NSA is moving to prime numbers.

A large public key isn't a very good reason to not adopt quantum-safe crypto, it just means that it requires having the Tor project to be able to scale to a larger degree. I suggest hash tables, a percentage of which are pseudorandomly downloaded. Otherwise the Tor project won't scale to 10x the relays ... even ignoring quantum cryptography.

We had a GSOC project to produce "consensus diffs", so that clients could download the differences between each consensus each hour, rather than downloading a full consensus (~1.5MB).

It showed some great results, but still needs a little work before we merge it.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13339

Tim

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