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Closed (moved) Don't weight by bandwidth when selecting among bridges
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  • Closed (moved) Issue created by George Kadianakis

    In choose_random_entry_impl() we have:

    choose_and_finish:
      if (entry_list_is_constrained(options)) {
        /* We need to weight by bandwidth, because our bridges or entryguards
         * were not already selected proportional to their bandwidth. */
        node = node_sl_choose_by_bandwidth(live_entry_guards, WEIGHT_FOR_GUARD);

    This means that bridges are also selected proportional to their bandwidth. However, since there is no bandwidth authorities for bridges their bandwidth is self-reported and potentially a lie. For this reason, it's probably not a good idea to use those values during path selection, since an evil bridge can try to dominate the guard probability.

    Fortunately, we also have bridge_get_advertised_bandwidth_bounded() which bounds bridges bandwidth between 20kB/s and 100kB/s. So the danger can't be that great.

    Still, it might be a better idea to pick amongst bridges in a uniform random way.

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