An accidental DOS ? >From my point of view, this functionality can't let a DOS out. If sysadmin's warnings about DOS on their servers trigger, they are missconfigured..
2013/1/21 Nick Mathewson <ni...@alum.mit.edu> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:56 PM, <benjaminlinc...@lavabit.com> wrote: > >>>> I think tor lacks an isolation flag which specifies to isolate each > and > >>>> every stream, even those going to the same address and port. > >>> > >>> I see, tor already implements such a flag, ISO_STREAM. > > > > I attached a simple formal proposal for this idea. Please discuss. > > Proposals go to tor-dev, not tor-talk. > > Before you re-send, you should check out the discussion (what there is > of it) on ticket #7553 at > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7553 . The major > concern at the time was the performance impact from a large number of > users all activating this option. The discussion on the ticket has > stalled; it would be nice to reboot the discussion on tor-dev and try > to bring it to a conclusion. > > In particular, if people think *this* is a good way to "maintain > separate identities" for something like web browsing, that's an > accidental DOS attack waiting to happen. > > yrs, > -- > Nick > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
