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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2016-12-08 10:26:54 -0500 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2016-12-08 10:26:54 -0500 |
| commit | f936c50a1f7defa87c24e4f34f6e1b1c375d7d10 (patch) | |
| tree | f5221a6242fb8135afe6558ccc99eedfe34c5c11 /proposals/271-another-guard-selection.txt | |
| parent | a5a4640a9544d20455efe96bc99a10e16c648eba (diff) | |
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271: Note the stickiness (not persistence) of unconfirmed primary guards
asn spotted this during code review.
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diff --git a/proposals/271-another-guard-selection.txt b/proposals/271-another-guard-selection.txt index 4da79ed..0f9328f 100644 --- a/proposals/271-another-guard-selection.txt +++ b/proposals/271-another-guard-selection.txt @@ -355,6 +355,10 @@ Status: Open PRIMARY_GUARDS chosen _uniformly_ at random from ({FILTERED_GUARDS} - {CONFIRMED_GUARDS}). + Once an element has been added to {PRIMARY_GUARDS}, we do not remove it + until it is replaced by some element from {CONFIRMED_GUARDS}. Confirmed + elements always proceed unconfirmed ones in the {PRIMARY_GUARDS} list. + Note that {PRIMARY_GUARDS} do not have to be in {USABLE_FILTERED_GUARDS}: they might be unreachable. |