[tor-bugs] #13296 [Tor]: Drop or replace turtles

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#13296: Drop or replace turtles
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     Reporter:  atagar  |      Owner:
         Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  major   |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.6.x-final
    Component:  Tor     |    Version:
   Resolution:          |   Keywords:
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Comment (by Sebastian):

 The whole bwauth and exit measuring thing is completely brittle, and I
 don't think the relay in Cambodia will necessarily score much better just
 because a bwauth is located in Cambodia. The bwauth voting code uses the
 low median for its result, so nothing much will change. The other point is
 that the huge majority of relays is located in NA/Europe, so whenever you
 make an actual circuit through a node which isn't you'll get a slower
 result. Also, are we actually asking exits to fetch the bwauth files
 directly? I thought we used all nodes as middle node to avoid trivial
 cheating by increasing priority for bwauth traffic, but I'm not certain on
 this point.

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