[tor-dev] Prop259 simulator and results

[Reinaldo Junior]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 6:10 AM, George Kadianakis <desnacked at riseup.net>
wrote:

> >
> > Since time is stopped while we're choosing guards we have to come with a
> > different metric for this. And it also requires detecting the network
> time.
> >
>
> Hm, what do you mean by "detecting the network time"?
>

Should be "detecting the network type" (for knowing when the network is
up). I blame muscle-memory.

I think the approach you mentioned above where you add some time cost to
> connections (2 seconds for successful and 4 for failures), should work for
> quantifying the time here, right?
>

I guess so. At least a ballpark estimate.


> FWIW, I have no idea if 2 and 4 seconds are good numbers. They could be. To
> make sure, you could try launching Tor and actually measure how much time
> it
> spends on dead guards and how much time it spends on alive guards.
>

We neither. We just wanted to make failures more expensive than successes.

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