[tor-dev] Information on the handling of relays churn

David Fifield david at bamsoftware.com
Thu Sep 27 17:30:38 UTC 2018


On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 08:21:06PM +0200, Adrien Luxey wrote:
>   • To which extent would you say that Tor is resilient to churn? What would be
>     the effects of a massive churn of relays? Where would be the bottleneck?

About churn specifically, the Sybil research of Winter, Ensafi, Loesing,
and Feamster has past measurements of churn rates, as well as source
code.

https://nymity.ch/sybilhunting/#Data
https://nymity.ch/sybilhunting/churn-values/
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2016-February/000064.html


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