On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 09:08:49AM +0100, Karsten Loesing wrote:
> On 23/10/14 19:32, David Fifield wrote:
> > In the past few months of bridge user graphs, there is an apparent
> > negative correlation between obfs3 users and vanilla users: when one
> > goes up, the other goes down. If you draw a horizontal line at about
> > 5500, they are almost mirror images of each other. I don't see it with
> > any other transport pairs. Any idea why it might be?
>
> I briefly looked at the raw data behind this graph, but didn't find any
> obvious problems with the algorithm. I'm running out of time now, but I
> can share some preliminary results in case you want to dig deeper:
>
> - https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/volatile/bridge-users-obfs3-or-mean.png
> is the graph that you posted with a third line for mean values.
>
> - https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/volatile/bridge-responses.csv.xz
> contains numbers of responses (for requested consensuses) by bridge,
> transport, and time interval.
I don't understand this file. Is it the number of times a bridge
answered a directory request? The number of times a bridge appeared in a
consensus? The number of times it was given out by BridgeDB?
> - https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/volatile/bridge-responses-by-transport.pdf
> shows responses by transport.
>
> - https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/volatile/bridge-responses-over-time.pdf
> shows only <OR> and obfs3 responses over time.
>
> - https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/volatile/bridge-responses-or-by-fingerprint.pdf
> shows only <OR> responses higher than 1000 by fingerprint.
I had trouble opening these in Evince, so I'm attaching PNGs I generated
with
convert -density 150 x.pdf x.png
> - https://onionoo.torproject.org/details?fingerprint=231E2DE81DC4314F2035D2C0D0D043A425FF8999
> is the bridge reporting those high numbers for <OR> responses. Is
> PacificSunset maybe one of the bundled bridges?
It is indeed:
pref("extensions.torlauncher.default_bridge.obfs3.5", "obfs3 208.79.90.242:35658 BA61757846841D64A83EA2514C766CB92F1FB41F");
I don't understand your line of reasoning in singling it out, though.
What do high numbers for <OR> responses suggest to you?
David
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