On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 06:28:01PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 08:40:09PM -0300, Punk - Stasi 2.0 wrote:
3) virtual-circuit-switched, or packet-switched? Is packet switiching the most expensive and the most secure option?
More on "Is packet switching the most expensive"? Packet switching is actually the least expensive (in CPU and bw overhead), optimal (in bw usage) base layer. The simplest reason this is so, is that TCP (or any other connection oriented protocol) as a base layer, incurs various oveheads - re-transmission delays, latency due to (required for TCP) re-ordering queues, and other attack and timing issues related to the specific protocol in use (TCP for Tor), and the point being: - these issues/overheads, are incurred for all streams, even packet based streams which do NOT need TCP overhead.