Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

[Collin Anderson <collin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Last time there was such a large rate of growth in the Tor network, wasn't
it the result of a botnet?

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Nathaniel Suchy <admin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Could new people be using Onionchat/Torchat I can't remember the name. But
> new addresses are generated for each client.
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:49 AM Alexandre Guillioud <
> guillioud.alexandre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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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