[tor-relays] how long till the axe falls on little guard relays?

[Kali Tor]

Thanks. At least it is good to see the graph stabilizing a bit after the sudden drop.

-kali-




> On Monday, August 25, 2014 12:31 PM, George Kadianakis <desnacked at riseup.net> wrote:
> > Kali Tor <kalitor42 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>>  I wonder why there is a sudden decrease in number of Guard nodes?
>> 
>>  -kali-
>> 
> 
> Because of the guard security changes that are currently being
> conducted, and specifically this section of proposal 236:
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/38e1ccdecac69be6651fc6d0ffb0b7c0f68ae3ed:/proposals/236-single-guard-node.txt#l145
> 
> Please read this paper for more information:
> https://www.petsymposium.org/2014/papers/Dingledine.pdf
> 
>> 
>>>  On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 5:40 PM, "Sebastian G. 
> <bastik.tor>" <bastik.tor at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>  > 20.08.2014, 19:23 Nusenu:
>>>>   its done
>>>> 
>>>>   https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#relayflags
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>  and by the looks of it, it didn't have much impact on the bandwidth
>>> 
>>>  https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html#bwhist-flags
>>> 
>>>  https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html#bandwidth-flags
>>> 
> 
> Yes, it seems so. You can read some analysis on this here:
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-March/006458.html
> 
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