Uptime Sanity Checking
Peter Palfrader
peter at palfrader.org
Thu Mar 8 22:50:44 UTC 2007
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007, Damon Liwanu Mc Coy wrote:
> We propose that uptime be capped at two months.
> Currently there are approximetly 50 nodes with this
> amount of uptime, and the average uptime is around 9
> days. This cap would prevent these 50 nodes from
> being displaced by an attacker.
Could you please explain to me what the point of this change is?
Especially in the light that - to my understanding - Tor only ever uses
the median of the uptime values, never the average. Assuming my
understanding is correct this would effectively be a non-op, isn't that
so?
Cheers,
Peter
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