On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:57:08AM -0500, Nicholas Hopper wrote: > > We can try to mitigate this phenomenon by giving higher priority to > > young guards to be picked as guards: > > I'm pretty sure this section has it backwards from what was the intent > of the discussion of "guard age" at the dev meeting.
Right. > The weight > factor should be applied when choosing a "new guard" as a middle or > exit node, because it is being underutilized as a guard. This makes > it straightforward to apply: if relay R has had the guard flag for > fraction k of the last rotation period, then its weight for some other > position should be > > k*(weight with the guard flag) + (1-k)*(weight without the guard flag) Sounds good to me. --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev