[tor-dev] Hashring understanding

2016-02-06 Thread Spencer
Hi, George Kadianakis: Here are some resources Awesome; thanks! read the code to learn :) Will do. Wordlife, Spencer ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Hashring understanding

2016-02-04 Thread George Kadianakis
Spencer writes: > Hi, > >> >> George Kadianakis: >> Indeed. [The randomly selected guards] > are saved in the state file. Check: >> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-February/010355.html >> also see here for another explanation of >> how parts of it work: >> https://lists.torp

Re: [tor-dev] Hashring understanding

2016-02-04 Thread George Kadianakis
Ola Bini writes: > Hi, > > Sorry for the string of emails! > > Hopefully a simple question: > The current proposal contains logic for keeping track of network > up/down and setting timeouts for exponential backoff to test the > network again. But if I understand correctly, this proposal is > basi

[tor-dev] Hashring understanding

2016-02-04 Thread Spencer
Hi, > > George Kadianakis: > Indeed. [The randomly selected guards] > are saved in the state file. Check: > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-February/010355.html > also see here for another explanation of > how parts of it work: > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Hashring understanding

2016-02-04 Thread George Kadianakis
Ola Bini writes: > Hi, > >> I think it's fine to use randomness to generate it for now; that's what tor >> also currently does [0]. > Cool - we have a local clone of the specs and updating it with this > understanding. > Great! For better or worse I think making design decisions (or at least s

Re: [tor-dev] Hashring understanding

2016-02-04 Thread George Kadianakis
Ola Bini writes: > Hi, > > Thanks for the confirmation of our understanding! Very helpful. > > If I understand things correctly, we are supposed to take > GUARDLIST_FAILOVER_THRESHOLD guards from the list of all guards and > generate the GUARDLIST from that. Is that process supposed to be > deter

Re: [tor-dev] Hashring understanding

2016-02-04 Thread George Kadianakis
Ola Bini writes: > Hi, > > Sorry for this - had some questions about the hashring component of > #259 that I haven't been able to figure out myself. I'm sure it's just > me being unused to the Tor code base and how you write your proposals, > but it would be super helpful if I can get a quick ans