tor/doc/spec/proposals/099-misc.txt

Filename: 099-misc.txt
Title: Miscellaneous proposals
Author: Various
Created: 26-Jan-2007
Status: Meta

Overview:

   This document is for small proposal ideas that are about one paragraph in
   length.  From here, ideas can be rejected outright, expanded into full
   proposals, or specified and implemented as-is.

Proposals

1. Directory compression.

  Gzip would be easier to work with than zlib; bzip2 would result in smaller
  data lengths.  [Concretely, we're looking at about 10-15% space savings at
  the expense of 3-5x longer compression time for using bzip2.]  Doing
  on-the-fly gzip requires zlib 1.2 or later; doing bzip2 requires bzlib.
  Pre-compressing status documents in multiple formats would force us to use
  more memory to hold them.

  Status: Open

  -- Nick Mathewson