[tor-bugs] #7679 [Tor]: Test integration of Minion with Tor relays

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#7679: Test integration of Minion with Tor relays
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 Reporter:  arma     |          Owner:                  
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 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
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 Bryan Ford has a small kernel patch, and larger openssl patch, to let TLS
 1.2 receive data out-of-order and pass it to the application:

 http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0463

 """Internet applications increasingly employ TCP not as a stream
 abstraction, but as a substrate for application-level transports, a use
 that converts TCP's in-order semantics from a convenience blessing to a
 performance curse. As Internet evolution makes TCP's use as a substrate
 likely to grow, we offer Minion, an architecture for backward-compatible
 out-of-order delivery atop TCP and TLS. Small OS API extensions allow
 applications to manage TCP's send buffer and to receive TCP segments out-
 of-order. Atop these extensions, Minion builds application-level protocols
 offering true unordered datagram delivery, within streams preserving
 strict wire-compatibility with unsecured or TLS-secured TCP connections.
 Minion's protocols can run on unmodified TCP stacks, but benefit
 incrementally when either endpoint is upgraded, for a backward-compatible
 deployment path. Experiments suggest that Minion can noticeably improve
 the performance of applications such as conferencing, virtual private
 networking, and web browsing, while incurring minimal CPU or bandwidth
 costs."""

 I know that we've got TLS 1.2 disabled currently, but this sounds like the
 sort of project that one of our fast relay operators might want to play
 with to see how easy it is.

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