[tor-talk] How to make 100.000 bridge?

Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) lists at infosecurity.ch
Fri Jan 13 20:43:13 UTC 2012


On 1/13/12 7:48 PM, Javier Bassi wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
> <lists at infosecurity.ch> wrote:
>> (...)
>> The "Web world" (including webmaster, blogger, general poweruser) is
>> much wider than the *nix world and that kind of users already have their
>> own paid systems.
>>
>> A webmaster would be able to setup on all his managed website the .php
>> file working as stateless bridge, all wordpress user would be able to
>> install it.
>>
>> I mean, the user base and the simplicity of the procedure to get engaged
>> in supporting the tor network would be much more important if the only
>> action that a person have to do is:
>> - Load a .php file on a webroot
>> or
>> - Install a wordpress application
> 
> This method would have to deal with PHP default maximum execution time
> (30 seconds) and Apache default timeout directive (300 seconds) which
> the non-sysadmin webmaster/blogger can't change.

Yeah, but that's an implementation issue, requiring modification of Tor
Client and Tor Server to accommodate a transport system that can work
with multiple TCP connection for a single client.
TLS have also a session resume mechanism, maybe useful, to
suspend/resume/reattach sessions?

However the point is, assumed that could be technically feasible to do
it so that for end-user it's really easy to use, how really it would
increase the amount of 'bridge'?

I mean, how many additional different IP addresses and hostname could be
donated in support of Tor?

Reducing the entrance barrier by simplifying the active actions of
supporting Tor network, could make the network exponentially increase
it's "nodes" ?

-naif


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