Consensus could save ~500kB (3%) by clients automatically swapping MyFamily from config plaintext format to bitmap selection from DA provided list of recently seen node FP's before publishing descriptor.
On 2 Aug 2017, at 17:22, grarpamp grarpamp@gmail.com wrote:
Consensus could save ~500kB (3%) by clients automatically swapping MyFamily from config plaintext format to bitmap selection from DA provided list of recently seen node FP's before publishing descriptor.
This change would break existing relay descriptor parsers. We try not to do that.
We have several strategies for reducing directory download size, in particular: * consensus diffs, and * better compression.
For more details, see: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/Sponsor4...
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