[e-privacy] [Fwd: Re: Want a faster Tor? Upgrade, inform others]

[Marco A. Calamari]

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From: Kyle Williams <kyle.kwilliams at gmail.com>
Reply-To: or-talk at freehaven.net
To: or-talk at freehaven.net
Subject: Re: Want a faster Tor? Upgrade, inform others
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:16:29 -0700



On 9/1/07, Mike Perry <mikeperry at fscked.org> wrote:
        For those of you who are not subscribed to or-announce and/or
        have
        friends who use Tor, the latest Tor stable should provide
        significant
        performance/capacity increase once most clients upgrade.
        According to
        my measurements with TorFlow, there should be roughly four times
        as 
        much capacity once the network rebalances.
        
        In addition, many users should experience noticable improvement
        in
        performance just based on the fact that we are choosing guards
        in proportion to their bandwidth and expiring guards that were 
        selected with the buggy uniform algorithm.
        
        Also, once the network is balanced, we can begin to investigate
        both
        reliability scanning options and Johannes Renner can finish his
        Master's Thesis on performance enhanced path selection. :) 
        
        http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/Aug-2007/msg00001.html
        
        --
        Mike Perry
        Mad Computer Scientist
        fscked.org evil labs


Thank You Mike for your research and hard work on making Tor faster.  We
appreciate it.

I noticed the performance gain from the very first time I used the new
release, and continue experiencing faster connections.  I was able to
download a 30MB file the other night at a rate of 250KB/sec consistently
throughout the entire download. 


We updated Tor in JanusVM and will be releasing a new version soon.  




best regards,
Kyle Williams
http://www.janusvm.com

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