Karsten Loesing: > Feedback in the form of patches to the LaTeX sources is most preferred, > though email replies are of course fine, too.
See attachments. -- Lunar <lu...@torproject.org>
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From: Lunar <lu...@torproject.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 18:11:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Use Selenium with the Tor Browser instead of plain
Firefox
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If we want Torperf to gather realistic data, it makes more sense to use the
browser recommended by the Tor Project to access the web — the Tor Browser —
instead of Firefox.
As the Tor Browser is based on Firefox, driving other Firefox versions should
not be too complicated, but the primary target should be the Tor Browser.
This also will also give us a framework to test the performance of Tor Browser
(present and future) patches.
---
2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex b/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex
index b3eb955..1c643c0 100644
--- a/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex
+++ b/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ stem or another parsing library.
\subsection{High priority experiments}
-\subsubsection{Alexa top-X websites using Selenium/Firefox}
+\subsubsection{Alexa top-X websites using Selenium and the Tor Browser}
One major reason for rewriting Torperf is to make its results more
realistic.%
@@ -216,10 +216,10 @@ It was suggested to track down Will Scott's torperf-like scripts, make
them public if needed, and do a trial deployment somewhere.%
\footnote{\url{https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7516}}
An experiment making these more realistic measurements should use
-something like Selenium/Firefox to control an actual browser to make
+something like Selenium to control an actual Tor Browser to make
requests.
-As a variant, this experiment should be run with a Firefox that uses
-optimistic data.%
+As a variant, this experiment should be run with other Firefox versions, e.g.
+that one that uses optimistic data.%
\footnote{\url{https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3875}}
\subsubsection{Static file downloads}
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From 63f70cd36a7f5d14eb200c10f68ee16f07c38e90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lunar <lu...@torproject.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 18:14:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Using stream isolation features is probably the easiest
way to create new circuits
---
2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex b/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex
index 1c643c0..6e8d2f5 100644
--- a/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex
+++ b/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex
@@ -239,6 +239,10 @@ value that is lower than the experiment period.
An alternative may be to send the \verb+NEWNYM+ signal to the tor process
after every stream.%
\footnote{\url{https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2766}}
+The easiest path might be to leverage on the stream isolation features
+introduced in tor 0.2.3%
+\footnote{\url{https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/proposals/171-separate-streams.txt#l93}}
+and use a different SOCKS username/password for each requests.
The best way to extract these requirements is to read the source.%
\footnote{\url{https://gitweb.torproject.org/torperf.git/tree}}
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From dac23d7068803745a70fc5ed7c81522f6ecc5822 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lunar <lu...@torproject.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 18:20:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Also do upload tests using web browsers to gather more
data related to actual user experiences
---
2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex b/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex
index 6e8d2f5..e34706e 100644
--- a/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex
+++ b/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex
@@ -307,6 +307,9 @@ Similar to static file downloads, client and server timestamps can be
matched based on the random data that is posted to the server, or a digest
of that data.
+Ideally such upload tests should also be done using a full web browser
+drived by Selenium.
+
\section{Software design}
The previous sections outlined requirements to the Torperf rewrite and
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