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Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains
Not correlated (i'm too small in that pool), but i have workd on software
to maintain a HS pool. During dev, and at one point, i was emitting
thousands of registration a day.
2016-02-18 16:51 GMT+01:00 Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Scfith Rise up wrote:
> > Here is the exact link:
> https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-dir-onions-seen.html
> >
> > it jumped from 40000 to 60000 in the past day or two.
> >
> > Since the metrics are based on the number of relays acting as hidden
> >services with the assumption that at least 1% are reporting in, the
> >numbers are correlated directly with the number of relays running as well.
>
> Yep. Also, because each reporting relay adds noise, sometimes, due to
> the math involved, more than half of the relays end up inflating their
> number, so we end up with a higher number on that graph than is actually
> true in reality.
>
> Still, that is a large jump.
>
> Let's wait a few days and see if it settles down.
>
> If it doesn't, I'll guess that it's a real effect. But even then,
> we don't know why this (daily!) number is so much larger than the
> (total!) number of onion addresses that e.g. Ahmia knows about. Maybe
> it's Onionshare users, who generate one onion address per document they
> transfer? Maybe it's Ricochet users? Maybe it's measurement error? We need
> to see more improvements in the field of privacy-preserving statistics
> and measurements before we'll feel comfortable trying to get answers to
> this question.
>
> --Roger
>
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