7 Nov
2012
7 Nov
'12
2:55 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:36:34PM -0500, Nick Mathewson wrote:
Relays are running out of circuit IDs. It's time to make the field bigger.
I don't doubt the second sentence, but is the first sentence actually true? Do we have any evidence / measurements / something here?
(Since circids are relative to the connection they're on, it's not clear to me that any given TLS connection accrues more than a few tens of thousands of circuits. And if a very few do, maybe the solution is to move to a new TLS connection for those rare cases, rather than impose a 2-byte penalty on every cell in all cases.)
--Roger