Re: [tor-dev] HSDir Auth and onion descriptor scraping - actual stats

2014-11-10 Thread Gareth Owen
OK. curiosity got the better of me. I took a random sample of 20,368 HS descriptors and just 131 were authenticated - that's about 0.6%. The code I used is here: https://github.com/drgowen/tor-research-framework/blob/master/src/main/java/tor/examples/HSIsAuthed.java Best Gareth PS - I only took

Re: [tor-dev] HSDir Auth and onion descriptor scraping

2014-11-10 Thread George Kadianakis
Gareth Owen writes: > Grarpamp > > I'm only not publishing it because of privacy concerns - ultimately some HS > operators might not wish to have their existence publically known.. I > would be open to supplying it to bona fide and verifiable tor project > members if it is for a legitimate resea

Re: [tor-dev] HSDir Auth and onion descriptor scraping

2014-11-10 Thread Gareth Owen
Grarpamp I'm only not publishing it because of privacy concerns - ultimately some HS operators might not wish to have their existence publically known.. I would be open to supplying it to bona fide and verifiable tor project members if it is for a legitimate research purpose. I am collecting ver

Re: [tor-dev] HSDir Auth and onion descriptor scraping

2014-11-09 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Gareth Owen wrote: > I have several hundred thousand (or million? Haven't counted) hs descriptors > saved on my hard disk from a data collection experiment (from 70k HSes). > I'm a bit nervous about sharing these en masse as whilst not confidential > they're suppose

Re: [tor-dev] HSDir Auth and onion descriptor scraping

2014-11-09 Thread Gareth Owen
I have several hundred thousand (or million? Haven't counted) hs descriptors saved on my hard disk from a data collection experiment (from 70k HSes).  I'm a bit nervous about sharing these en masse as whilst not confidential they're supposed to be difficult to obtain in this quantity.  However,

[tor-dev] HSDir Auth and onion descriptor scraping

2014-11-09 Thread grarpamp
> George K: > I suspect that HS authorization is very rare in the current network, > and if we believe it's a useful tool, it might be worthwhile to make > it more useable by people. Is anyone making their HSDir onion descriptor scraping patches available somewhere? I'd suspect the rarity of HS au