On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 09:54, Bryan L. Fordham wrote: > I'm playing with code for a basic mixminion pinger. Before I get too > far with it I'd like to get some thoughts from everyone else. It's > possible I'm going about this all wrong and I'd prefer to find out > sooner rather than later 8) > > First, for how pings are done. Basically I plan to send a message > through the chain '$server,sushi' where $server is each server listed > from `mixminion list-servers` except sushi. I'm leaving sushi out > because, well, I'm sushi. > > If there's a better way to do that I'd love to hear it. Do you want to go quick-and-dirty, or do-the-right-thing? Keep in mind that, at some future date, Mixminion will probably grow built-in pinging functionality. (So personally, I'd recommend quick&dirty.) If you *do* want to do the right thing, you should probably scout out the literature before plugging in. First, read all the echolot documentation, and make Peter tell you what he thinks is wrong with echolot. Then you'll probably want to read at least the following papers to get a handle on how hard and interesting the "pinging" problem (or family of problems) really is: http://freehaven.net/anonbib/author.html#mix-acc http://freehaven.net/anonbib/author.html#casc-rep And check out George & Len's neat scheme in the following, to see why at least a certain form of pinging should maybe go into the mixminion server itself: http://freehaven.net/anonbib/author.html#danezis:wpes2003 HTH, -- Nick
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