On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 14:38:40 -0500, Paul Syverson paul.syverson@nrl.navy.mil wrote:
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:18:29AM -0800, Gordon Morehouse wrote: [snip]
That's just plain silly.
Not as silly as you think, but the outright blocking vs finding ways to throttle is more a discussion worth having. I suspect most of the Silent Majority(tm), if polled, would rather throttle than block.
I *swear* there was a paper on this other than the 2009 one I posted the other day.
Are you perhaps thinking of "Throttling Tor Bandwidth Parasites"? Available at http://www.syverson.org/ or http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~jansen/publications.shtml
That's one of them, here are a couple sources of information on throttling bandwidth hogs:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/research-problem-adaptive-throttling-tor-cl...
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9368
Throttling is tricky and not a panacea. This is noted in the above paper and analyzed in some detail in "How Low Can You Go: Balancing Performance with Anonymity in Tor", also available at http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~jansen/publications.shtml
Indeed. I suspect it's also better than doing nothing, and better than any attempt to block certain types of traffic altogether.
Thanks! -Gordon M.