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Re: [tor-bugs] #16818 [Website]: Publishing Download Stats

#16818: Publishing Download Stats
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     Reporter:  mrphs    |      Owner:  Sebastian
         Type:  defect   |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal   |  Milestone:
    Component:  Website  |    Version:
   Resolution:           |   Keywords:  stats, usability, metrics
Actual Points:           |  Parent ID:
       Points:           |
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Changes (by mikeperry):

 * cc: pde (added)


Comment:

 For downloads, we can use something like http://bug.st/mod_anonstats,
 which hashes IPs with an ephemeral salt/key that rotates every so often.
 Unfortunately, it uses MD5, which is less than ideal. I think the EFF uses
 something like this. Perhaps they updated it to SHA?

 Updates are trickier, because they always come through the Tor network, so
 we'll have many people using the same exit IP to check for and download
 updates, so it will be harder to filter out repeat downloads/failures/etc.
 The updates themselves are also (sometimes, depending on network
 conditions) downloaded in HTTP range requests (partial chunks), so there
 are often (but not always) a variable number of 206 requests from the same
 user.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16818#comment:7>
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