[or-cvs] r18117: {website} Monthly status report for January. (website/trunk/projects/en)

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Author: kloesing
Date: 2009-01-15 10:34:53 -0500 (Thu, 15 Jan 2009)
New Revision: 18117

Modified:
   website/trunk/projects/en/hidserv.wml
Log:
Monthly status report for January.

Modified: website/trunk/projects/en/hidserv.wml
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--- website/trunk/projects/en/hidserv.wml	2009-01-15 14:35:58 UTC (rev 18116)
+++ website/trunk/projects/en/hidserv.wml	2009-01-15 15:34:53 UTC (rev 18117)
@@ -398,9 +398,37 @@
 
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-    Jan 09
+    <a id="Jan09"></a>
+    <a class="anchor" href="#Jan09">Jan 09</a>
   </td>
   <td>
+    <small><em>The testing phase has been concluded. Testing was performed
+    in a public beta phase with all changes to hidden services being part
+    of the 0.2.1.x-alpha series. The result of the public beta phase is a
+    couple of identified bugs that could already be fixed.</em></small>
+    <br/>
+    <small><em>Another part of testing was a second set of measurements
+    that was performed in December. A
+    <a href="http://freehaven.net/~karsten/hidserv/comparison-2009-01-15.pdf";>comparison</a>
+    of measurements performed in June and December has revealed that the
+    changes of this project are effective. Service publication times could
+    be more than halved from 2:12 minutes to 58 seconds in the mean. This
+    improvement is far better than expected. With this improvement it might
+    even be worthwile to think about reducing stabilization time from 30
+    seconds to a lower value in the future. However, connection
+    establishment remains at approximately 56 seconds between requesting a
+    hidden service to having established a connection to the hidden server.
+    The main reason for missing improvements is the switch from the
+    centralized to a decentralized storage for hidden service descriptors.
+    This deteriorating effect of distributing the hidden service directory
+    has not been expected before. Future work should focus on improving
+    downloads from the distributed hidden service directory, for example by
+    parallelizing requests.</em></small>
+    <br/>
+    <small><em>This report concludes the series of monthly status updates.
+    The rollout of the 0.2.1.x series including the hidden service
+    performance improvements is going to take place within the next weeks
+    to months.</em></small>
   </td>
 </tr>
 </table>