[tor-relays] Cloudflare Onions Beta and Network Stability

[Nathaniel Suchy]

In the name of improving security, let's pretend Cloudflare is acting,
without a shadow of doubt, in full malice. They want to get every
Cloudflare website onion service as fast as possible. That would create a
huge amount of circuits and I worry about whether the network can handle
it. What information do we have on this? Right now Cloudflare could, in
theory, I am not saying that they will, flip a switch and could cause quite
the strain on the Tor Network.

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 4:44 PM, Robert Keizer <robert at keizer.ca> wrote:

> Is there any kind of information about what kind of bandwidth /
> connections they are expecting to route?
>
> Having a sense of scale in a ratio of current numbers I think would let
> everyone plan for what they're currently seeing multiply by X as a
> baseline.
>
>
> On 2018-08-20 11:23 AM, Nathaniel Suchy wrote:
> > As some of you may have heard, Cloudflare is beta testing
> > opportunistic onions. This of course is going to create more Tor
> > traffic. Cloudflare has several concerns about running their own
> > relays and says they won’t at this time. That said if every Cloudflare
> > website becomes an Onion Service overnight how would that affect
> > network stability and what can we as relay operators do to prepare for
> it?
> >
> >
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