[tor-bugs] Re: #1627 [Tor - Relay]: Set Advertized Bandwidth

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#1627: Set Advertized Bandwidth
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  Reporter:  Henfre       |       Owner:  None yet, but hopeful 
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  reopened              
  Priority:  trivial      |   Milestone:  Tor Check Enhancements
 Component:  Tor - Relay  |     Version:  Tor: 0.2.2.x-final    
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  tor, relay, bandwidth 
    Parent:               |  
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Comment(by nickm):

 Oops; closed the other one before I saw that you closed this one.

 Anyway: Servers' self-advertised bandwidth is no longer the main factor
 used to decide how much to use them: it's too easy for a malicious server
 to lie and claim more bandwidth than it has.  Instead, clients now base
 their decision on measured bandwidth as estimated by one or more
 'bandwidth authorities'.  See  proposals 160 and 161 for an intro to the
 topic.

 (Also, it's not the individual connection to any other server that a Tor
 process uses to estimate its own bandwidth.  Instead, it uses the maximum
 aggregate bandwidth that it has ever been able to push out in a given time
 period over _all_ connections.)

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