Commit 8f75d5d0 authored by Roger Dingledine's avatar Roger Dingledine
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try to make it clearer that eigentrust is one way to do the

"deputy tester" design, but there are simpler ways too.


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   The option above has the directory servers doing all of the
   measurements. This doesn't scale. We can set it up so we have "deputy
   testers" -- trusted other nodes that do performance testing and report
   their results. If we want to be really adventurous, we could even
   their results.

   If we want to be really adventurous, we could even
   accept claims from every Tor user and build a complex weighting /
   reputation system to decide which claims are "probably" right.

   One possible way to implement the latter is something similar to
   EigenTrust [http://www.stanford.edu/~sdkamvar/papers/eigentrust.pdf],
   where the opinion of nodes with high reputation more is weighted