> - I feel that the max settings imposed by the 50k max size limit, will satisfy > most crazy hidden service use cases that someone might have wrt scalability > or number of authed clients. It can support up to 350 authed clients, and 20 > intro points. We should increase the max size limit, if we want to support > more advanced use cases. > > - I also feel the configurations that fit in the default descriptor (of 10k > bytes blob) will probably satisfy most hidden service use cases out there as > it can support up to 80 authed clients, and up to 11 intro points. The > anonymity set of those hidden services descriptors will be good wrt snooping HSDirs > > - Giant hidden service descriptors will stand out and their anonymity set will > likely be small. I think such giant hidden services should perhaps split > their info to multiple descriptors using some sort of stealth-auth mechanism > (where they give different onion address to different clients). > Alternatively, we should change our padding rules, or always pad to max > descriptor size. I understand what I'm saying below might be a bit far fetched but while we're brainstorming on things, I thought I'd just throw this out... I think it would be interesting to see things like onion-balance get integrated into this setup at some point in the long run, so if there's a giant onion service, it would automatically scale after a certain amount of clients or requests. I haven't thought much about how it can work in auth mechanism but I find it an interesting subject to think about. Specially if we want to mainstream the heavy use of onion services. Kudos for working on such important properties of Tor. Cheers, -- Nima 0X58C4B928A3E218F6 | @mrphs "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" --Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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