[tor-relays] >23% Tor exit relay capacity found to be malicious - call for support for proposal to limit large scale attacks

Toralf Förster toralf.foerster at gmx.de
Wed Jul 8 15:22:44 UTC 2020


On 7/8/20 12:35 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> * One is dividing the network into known and unknown relays, where we
> reserve some minimum fraction of attention for the known relays. Here
> the next steps are to figure out how to do load balancing properly with
> this new parameter (mainly a math problem), and to sort out the logistics
> for how to label the known relays so directory authorities can assign
> weights properly (mainly coding / operator ux).

Which boils down to "subjective" versus "objective" criterias of a weight distribution algorithms.

Which is fine as long as the maths behind it is public available and understandable.

This would enable a relay operator to verify/falsify it.


-- 
Toralf

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