From 23fabf60e5798c446166548284e9e166b1e1e7f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Mathewson Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:16:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Move (nonwritten) discussion of path selection svn:r751 --- doc/tor-design.tex | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/tor-design.tex b/doc/tor-design.tex index b2dcd28e49..a2b01ca4bd 100644 --- a/doc/tor-design.tex +++ b/doc/tor-design.tex @@ -662,7 +662,6 @@ $K_2 = g^{x_2 y_2}$. To extend the circuit to a third node or beyond, Alice proceeds as above, always telling the last node in the circuit to extend one hop further. -% XXX Briefly mention path selection and path length. This circuit-level handshake protocol achieves unilateral entity authentication (Alice knows she's handshaking with the OR, but @@ -1707,6 +1706,10 @@ too-frequent updates the directory servers are overloaded. %[XXX Choosing paths and path lengths: I'm not writing this bit till % Arma's pathselection stuff is in. -NM] +%Alice always chooses her path to contain at least +%three nodes unrelated to herself and her destination, choosing the +%number of nodes beyond the third from a geometric distribution; +%explain why. -NM %%%% Roger said that he'd put a path selection paragraph into section %%%% 4 that would replace this.