# Activities of February 2015 - A few things happened on guard security.
After a few more tweaks, my guardfraction branch got merged to tor and released as part of tor-0.2.6.3-alpha. Also, the python script has now been deployed to three authorities. moria1 is even adding GuardFraction fields to the votes, as you can see in: http://128.31.0.34:9131/tor/status-vote/current/authority - Helped write and publish a blog post about the hidden service statistics we analyzed! You can read it at: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/some-statistics-about-onions - Started a trac ticket about an option for hidden services to announce themselves to the world. The idea has received mixed feedback so far: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15008 - Discussed some HS research topics: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008245.html Explored some roadmap possibilites for OONI: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008269.html Commented on the new onion.city HS search engine: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-February/036894.html # Activities for March 2015 - Review some remaining bits of the Laplace little-t-tor code (#13192). - Work on upcoming HS crowdfunding campaign. - Work on hidden service statistics. We recently decided to approach this problem from a different angle. Instead of thinking of all the possible statistics that we could collect, we should think of the research problems we want to solve. We should find some interesting ones, and see what data we need to collect. For more short-term results, I'd also like to look into other statistics that might be helpful for detecting attacks. For example, the number of relay identity keys per IP (to detect malicious HSDir), or a better way to display reported bandwidths (to detect bandwidth faking attacks). - Decide whether we want to change the requirements for becoming an HSDir (#8243). - Start working on a non-statistics task. I'm not yet sure which one this is going to be but I will find out soon. _______________________________________________ tor-reports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-reports
