On 5/19/12 11:41 AM, Sebastian G. <bastik.tor> wrote: > Karsten Loesing, 16.05.2012 08:47: >> On 5/2/12 2:30 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote: >>> If nobody objects within the next, say, two weeks, I'm going to make an >>> old tarball from 2008 available with original nicknames. And if nobody >>> screams, I'll provide the remaining tarballs containing original >>> nicknames another two weeks later. >> >> Here we go. These are the sanitized bridge descriptors from May 2008 >> including original bridge nicknames: >> >> http://freehaven.net/~karsten/volatile/bridges-2008-05-nicknames.tar.bz2 >> > > Here we go with the similarities of bridge and relay nicknames.
Thanks for spending this much time on the analysis! Here's what I did with your findings.txt: - extract unique fingerprint pairs of relays and bridges that you found as having similar nicknames, - look through descriptor archives to see if relay and bridge were running in the same /24 at any time in May 2008, and - determine the absolute and relative number of bridges in a given network status that could have been located via nickname similarity. Results are that 24 of your 81 guesses (30%) were correct in the sense that a bridge was at least once running in the same /24 as the relay with similar nickname. At any time in May 2008, you'd have located between 1 and 6 bridges (2.5% to 18%) with 3 bridges (10%) in the mean via nickname similarity. I think it's acceptable to publish more recent bridge descriptors with nicknames in a week from now. Results may look quite different with 1000 bridges instead of 30. Again, thanks for running this analysis! Maybe you're interested in automating your comparison and re-running it for a 2012 tarball? Thanks, Karsten _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
