Possible design changes to improve hidden service performance

[Karsten Loesing]

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Hi list,

Karsten Loesing wrote on 2008-07-15:
> Christian Wilms and I have finished a document describing 7 possible 
> design changes to make the hidden service protocol faster. Some of
> those ideas have implications on network load or anonymity which are
> mentioned in that document, too. Our intention is to discuss these
> ideas here until, say, beginning of August and write a proposal
> including the ideas that have survived the discussion process until
> mid of August.
> 
> http://freehaven.net/~karsten/hidserv/discussion-2008-07-15.pdf

Today, one month later, these 7 possible design changes have been
evaluated and discussed in more detail. We plan to implement 5 of them
and have given up on 2 of them for various reasons.

If you are interested in the results, including the reasons for or
against certain designs, you might want to read our mid-August report:

http://freehaven.net/~karsten/hidserv/design-2008-08-15.pdf

This report is part of the NLnet Project: Speed Up Tor Hidden Services
(https://www.torproject.org/projects/hidserv)

Again, comments are most welcome!

- --Karsten
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