Last time there was such a large rate of growth in the Tor network, wasn't it the result of a botnet?
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Nathaniel Suchy <ad...@nsuchy.top> wrote: > Could new people be using Onionchat/Torchat I can't remember the name. But > new addresses are generated for each client. > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:49 AM Alexandre Guillioud < > guillioud.alexan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Not correlated (i'm too small in that pool), but i have workd on software > > to maintain a HS pool. During dev, and at one point, i was emitting > > thousands of registration a day. > > > > 2016-02-18 16:51 GMT+01:00 Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu>: > > > > > 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 > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > -- > 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 > -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C. -- 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
