On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 14:38:40 -0500, Paul Syverson <paul.syver...@nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:18:29AM -0800, Gordon Morehouse wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > That's just plain silly. > > > > Not as silly as you think, but the outright blocking vs finding ways > > to throttle is more a discussion worth having. I suspect most of the > > Silent Majority(tm), if polled, would rather throttle than block. > > > > I *swear* there was a paper on this other than the 2009 one I posted > > the other day. > > > > Are you perhaps thinking of "Throttling Tor Bandwidth Parasites"? > Available at http://www.syverson.org/ or > http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~jansen/publications.shtml That's one of them, here are a couple sources of information on throttling bandwidth hogs: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/research-problem-adaptive-throttling-tor-clients-entry-guards https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9368 > Throttling is tricky and not a panacea. This is noted in the > above paper and analyzed in some detail in > "How Low Can You Go: Balancing Performance with Anonymity in Tor", > also available at > http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~jansen/publications.shtml Indeed. I suspect it's also better than doing nothing, and better than any attempt to block certain types of traffic altogether. Thanks! -Gordon M. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
