24 Dec
2013
24 Dec
'13
5:53 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Benedikt Gollatz ben@differentialschokolade.org wrote:
Tor uses TLS only for node-to-node transport encryption. Any improvements to Tor's TLS behaviour would therefore only result in occasionally faster circuit building times. This may be nice to have, but because Tor builds circuits preemptively and therefore can switch circuits quickly, I doubt that this is an actual bottleneck in the system.
If we're going to mess with the node-to-node encryption Tor uses, switching to a transport that can deliver cells out of order seems like it would have considerably more upside for the effort.
zw