#6790: Write proposal draft for directory mirrors to accept, aggregate and hand
off descriptors to dirauths
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Reporter: mikeperry | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Tor:
0.2.4.x-final
Component: Tor Directory Authority | Version:
Keywords: MikePerry201210, proposal-needed | Parent: #2664
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by mikeperry):
Sebastian,nickm: Actually, as I see it the root issue is eliminating
dirauths as a (collective) single points of failure in terms of capacity.
Having a separate port for descriptor submission from the whole Internet
does not fix this.
In an ideal world, each dirauth should not need more than a cell phone's
worth of uplink flying around on a quadrocopter somewhere. It's fine to
have this centralization exist for consensus reasons, but it should not be
exposed for anything else. That's just dangerous. I mean, how many times
do we have to shoot *ourselves* in the head before we realize someone else
can do it, too?
ioerror: Can you explain the backchannel that the adversary uses to get
the result back in what I describe in comment 1? Or better put: What is
the adversary's goal with such probes?
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