[tor-bugs] #9001 [Tor]: Slow Guard Discovery of Hidden Services and Clients

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#9001: Slow Guard Discovery of Hidden Services and Clients
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 Reporter:  mikeperry                        |          Owner:                    
     Type:  defect                           |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  major                            |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.5.x-final
Component:  Tor                              |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  tor-hs path-bias needs-proposal  |         Parent:                    
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Comment(by andrea):

 Hmm - virtual circuits still sound like an interesting idea to me, but how
 do we tell the difference between failures where it's sensible to retry
 the same path vs. ones where retrying will always fail, like if one of the
 nodes in the path goes offline and we can't know that, other than from the
 failures of the circuits, until the authorities figure it out and it drops
 out of the consensus?  Seems like this involves a sensitive tradeoff
 between avoiding attacks like in #9072 vs. providing reliable service for
 the clients in the face of possibly unreliable nodes.

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