[tor-bugs] #8950 [Tor]: Comments on the formula calculating the number of Introduction Points

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#8950: Comments on the formula calculating the number of Introduction Points
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     Reporter:  asn     |      Owner:
         Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal  |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.???
    Component:  Tor     |    Version:
   Resolution:          |   Keywords:  tor-hs
Actual Points:          |  Parent ID:
       Points:          |
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Comment (by hellais):

 I wrote a quick tool to enumerate the HS descriptors of a list of hidden
 services and found something quite surprising (here you can find the
 hackish script that does it:
 https://gist.github.com/hellais/a1a63df6e9f4958c9ab0).

 While most do indeed have 3 intro points I stumbled into one that had 7.
 If somebody is interested I can give the output of the run of the tool,
 but you can also do it yourself by compiling the above branch of tor and
 giving it as list of hidden services the list of most popular HS's by
 ahmia (https://ahmia.fi/stats/viewer).

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