Finally came up with a search that yielded helpful information. Searching "tor" "Wgd=0"
pulled a mathematically intense post written by Mike Perry: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2010-January/001039.html Which discusses validation of the statistics with Mathematica and provides insight into the design. No mention of Wgm but I will spend a few days working to understand the math and perhaps will see how Wgm fits into the picture. At 12:01 12/13/2015 -0500, you wrote: >The recent major fix for #17772 inspired >reflection on the practical effect >considering relay weighting. Knowing >nothing about it aside from the graph >lines shown by Atlas and Globe, I thought >the change might make little difference >as Guard Weight would mostly prevent >non-guards from being considered. > >However, per dir-spec and the current >consensus, it seems that middle relays >have a weight equal to guard relays >when guard selection occurs: > >Wgd=0 - exit as guard >Wgg=6065 - guard as guard >Wgm=6065 - no-flag as guard > >I would like to understand the purpose >behind this. Can anyone comment? > >Thanks -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
