[tor-scaling] Congestion control review + proposal ideas post

[Mike Perry]

As a heads up, I finally finished the second installment of background
review material for this topic:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2020-June/014343.html

The next step is Tor Proposal.

On 1/30/20 7:57 AM, Mike Perry wrote:
> I just posted a very long summary of congestion control attempts in Tor,
> in which I also include a handful of potential new ideas:
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2020-January/014140.html
> 
> That post recaps basically everything we've learned in the past 20 years
> of anonymity research on the topic, and then borrows some ideas from TCP
> research, to propose new ideas for Tor. I believe several of these ideas
> are considerably more secure than drop signaling/QUIC, and some of them
> can be deployed by upgrading only Exit nodes.
> 
> I tried to make it accessible to both Tor and external dev audiences.
> 
> I opted for tor-dev because there are likely more old cypherpunks on
> that list who can review it, but I wanted to give a heads up here in
> case there are people who are only on this list.
> 
> --
> Mike Perry
> 
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Mike Perry

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