Guard Discovery Brainstorm

Hide the signal

• Fix the bug where excessive hidden service circuit traffic kills circuits (but still counts against the bandwidth) [Which bug is this?? Is it #22728 (moved) or something else?]
• Update relay bandwidth statistics every 24 hours (same period as descriptor bandwidths)
• Add noise to the bandwidth stats
• Avoid per-relay bandwidth stats (just have total network bandwidth stats via PrivCount or similar)
• Subtract client data from guard totals (rather than adding it) - this spreads the client bandwidth across all the middles
• Drop stats and graphs entirely

Limit the signal

• Relays restrict each single OR connection to a fraction of their (total available, total used) bandwidth
• Clients set a default BandwidthRate (all clients? not single onion services?)
  • Larger clients use single onion services or onion balance