our nodes were under heavy attack mostly coming from tor network, but also from clearnet so I made the guide what can be done to prevent unwanted traffic hitting the monerod

suggestions are appreciated

this is not final versions and will be improved

There hasn't been much progress on the review of monero-project/monero #8774 since I opened it a month ago, is there something I can do to speed this up?

vtnerd: vtnerd_

Looking at it now

You said in the PR comments "This patch mitigates but doesn't complete solve the issue". Are you talking about the issue of timing analysis or specifically circuit reuse?

From what I remember when writing this the only possibility of circuit reuse is when a remote peer initiates the drop because there's no socks5 to force a new circuit on next connection

For very high threat models using tx proxy with one connection is the best for privacy with this patch

Actually one or two, you want to prevent a sybil from linking connections based on when noise sending is started/stopped

But that makes it easier for a remote node to link you across connections based on how quickly you disconnect so it's not perfect either

I think the best privacy would be if the recommendation/default was one or two outgoing tx proxy connections, it means the maximum delay between successive transactions would be extended by RANDOM_CONNECTION_DROP_UPPER but would make sybil a lot less effective

Adding a delay to prevent instantly broadcasting after the epoch would improve privacy some more

when you implement these suggestions the review can take place

It woul be good for somebody to confirm that there are no identifiers sent on tx proxy connections that make all of this effort useless, I couldn't find any but there was mention of "timestamp in peer timed sync"

Why would I implement these things before discussing?

I've been waiting a month to get the initial review done, I'm trying to make some progress here

you are pinging a contributor for a progress update on the "review". meanwhile in the pull request i see "This is a "rough draft"/"conversation starter". I have not done much C++." so are you pinging for a review or implementation?

I've implemented the entire patch, these are minor adjustments

That's just to stress that it needs review and discussion before being merged, but it's a working patch

Did you read the code?

I'm sorry for trying to improve Monero, where would you like me to take my thoughts on doing so?