George Kadianakis <[email protected]> writes: > Hello people, > > for the past few months we've been working on getting better > statistics for hidden services [0]. > > The questions we are trying to answer are "Approximately how many > hidden services are there?" and "Approximately how much traffic of the > Tor network is going to hidden services?". > > We can answer these questions by collecting statistics from Tor > relays: specifically, from hidden service directories (HSDirs) and > rendezvous points. In our design, these relays first obfuscate the > statistics before publishing them, so that the numbers themselves are > not entirely precise [1]. We specify how exactly these statistics are > collected in proposal 238-hs-relay-stats.txt [2]. > > We have also developed a Tor branch [3] implementing that proposal > that people can run on their relays to start collecting hidden service > statistics. The corresponding trac ticket is #13192 if you want to > follow the developer discussion [4]. > > Our plan is that in approximately a week we will ask volunteers to run > the branch. Then in a month from now we will use those stats to write > a blog post about the approximate size of Tor hidden services network > and the approximate traffic it's pushing. >
Hello, we have now finished writing a tech report with the results of these statistics. You can find it in PDF form here: https://research.torproject.org/techreports/extrapolating-hidserv-stats-2015-01-31.pdf We are currently working on a more casual-reader-friendly blog post, which will contain additional information that the Tor community might be interested in. You will find it in blog.torproject.org in two weeks from now or so. _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
