[tor-talk] Cupcake Bridge update

Griffin Boyce griffinboyce at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 18:17:55 UTC 2013


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:34 AM, David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com>wrote:

> There are many more proxies than clients, so the chance that any one
> proxy gets a client is small. Don't be discouraged if you don't see a
> light blue badge, because it happens rarely. We claimed in the paper
> that having lots of legitimate, but unused, proxies helps defend against
> some attacks on the facilitator by malicious proxies. You are still
> helping, even if nobody is using your badge.
>
> David Fifield


FWIW, when I tested it, it connected 1-3 times over a two-hour period.

~Griffin


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