This isn't exactly what you asked, but read the first few sections of this where it looks for bottlenecks.
http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf -V On Sunday, August 17, 2014, Mike Fikuart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tor-Talk, > > I am interested in the scaling limits to Tor and what present the > bottlenecks to Tor’s future expansion. I have looked into the > documentation available and see that Tor has far exceeded initial > projections through structural changes to the relationships between > clients, DA’s and relays. > > Two of the bottle necks identified in dir-spec (section 0.3 Some Remaining > Questions) are that having every client know about every relay; and to have > every Directory Cache to know about every router won’t scale ad infinitum. > > Is there a known threshold that on the horizon that you are aware of but > don’t need to address at this stage? > What are the limiting factors to the unchallenged scaling up of Tor to the > multiple million users and nodes? > > I would like some guidance in where these pinch points are so as to > research this in greater detail. > > Yours sincerely > > Mike Fikuart IEng MIET > > Mobile: 07801 070580 > Office: 020 33840275 > Blog: mikefikuart<mikefikuart.wordpress.com> > Skype: mikefikuart<skype:mikefikuart?call> > Twitter: mikefikuart<https://twitter.com/#!/MikeFikuart> > LinkedIn: mikefikuart<http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikefikuart> > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] <javascript:;> > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
