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[tor-bugs] #7679 [Tor]: Test integration of Minion with Tor relays
#7679: Test integration of Minion with Tor relays
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Reporter: arma | Owner:
Type: project | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Tor: unspecified
Component: Tor | Version:
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Bryan Ford has a small kernel patch, and larger openssl patch, to let TLS
1.2 receive data out-of-order and pass it to the application:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0463
"""Internet applications increasingly employ TCP not as a stream
abstraction, but as a substrate for application-level transports, a use
that converts TCP's in-order semantics from a convenience blessing to a
performance curse. As Internet evolution makes TCP's use as a substrate
likely to grow, we offer Minion, an architecture for backward-compatible
out-of-order delivery atop TCP and TLS. Small OS API extensions allow
applications to manage TCP's send buffer and to receive TCP segments out-
of-order. Atop these extensions, Minion builds application-level protocols
offering true unordered datagram delivery, within streams preserving
strict wire-compatibility with unsecured or TLS-secured TCP connections.
Minion's protocols can run on unmodified TCP stacks, but benefit
incrementally when either endpoint is upgraded, for a backward-compatible
deployment path. Experiments suggest that Minion can noticeably improve
the performance of applications such as conferencing, virtual private
networking, and web browsing, while incurring minimal CPU or bandwidth
costs."""
I know that we've got TLS 1.2 disabled currently, but this sounds like the
sort of project that one of our fast relay operators might want to play
with to see how easy it is.
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