On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Scfith Rise up wrote: > Here is the exact link: > https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-dir-onions-seen.html > > it jumped from 40000 to 60000 in the past day or two. > > Since the metrics are based on the number of relays acting as hidden >services with the assumption that at least 1% are reporting in, the >numbers are correlated directly with the number of relays running as well.
Yep. Also, because each reporting relay adds noise, sometimes, due to the math involved, more than half of the relays end up inflating their number, so we end up with a higher number on that graph than is actually true in reality. Still, that is a large jump. Let's wait a few days and see if it settles down. If it doesn't, I'll guess that it's a real effect. But even then, we don't know why this (daily!) number is so much larger than the (total!) number of onion addresses that e.g. Ahmia knows about. Maybe it's Onionshare users, who generate one onion address per document they transfer? Maybe it's Ricochet users? Maybe it's measurement error? We need to see more improvements in the field of privacy-preserving statistics and measurements before we'll feel comfortable trying to get answers to this question. --Roger -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
