[tor-talk] [tor-dev] Open streams on the fly

[Alexandre Guillioud]

An accidental DOS ?

>From my point of view, this functionality can't let a DOS out.
If sysadmin's warnings about DOS on their servers trigger, they are
missconfigured..

2013/1/21 Nick Mathewson <nickm at alum.mit.edu>

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:56 PM,  <benjaminlincoln at lavabit.com> wrote:
> >>>> I think tor lacks an isolation flag which specifies to isolate each
> and
> >>>> every stream, even those going to the same address and port.
> >>>
> >>> I see, tor already implements such a flag, ISO_STREAM.
> >
> > I attached a simple formal proposal for this idea. Please discuss.
>
> Proposals go to tor-dev, not tor-talk.
>
> Before you re-send, you should check out the discussion (what there is
> of it) on ticket #7553 at
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7553 .  The major
> concern at the time was the performance impact from a large number of
> users all activating this option.  The discussion on the ticket has
> stalled; it would be nice to reboot the discussion on tor-dev and try
> to bring it to a conclusion.
>
> In particular, if people think *this* is a good way to "maintain
> separate identities" for something like web browsing, that's an
> accidental DOS attack waiting to happen.
>
> yrs,
> --
> Nick
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