[tor-project] Plan to double-check Tor Browser initial download numbers

[Karsten Loesing]

On 2017-07-18 03:41, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 07:54:14PM -0400, Ian Goldberg wrote:
>> Any chance you (i.e. a script) could replace the IP address with
>> HASH(IP||salt) for a randomly chosen salt that you don't know, and which
>> is deleted when the 30 minutes are up, before you get access to the log
>> file?
> 
> See https://www.eff.org/policy#cryptolog for how EFF does something
> similar. It looks like they use 24 hour intervals, and they do this all
> the time, but hopefully their cryptolog tool will be helpful if we opt
> to use it for the short term.
> https://github.com/efforg/cryptolog

As answered to Ian, I'd like to keep this simple and leave out IP
addresses for now.

> Also, teor's question about partial downloads is a really good one:
> there are many "download accelerators" out there that fetch the first 5
> kbytes of the file or something and then stop and do it again, over and
> over. In theory our current logs should be able to help there, since it
> should log how many bytes were fetched.

As answered to teor, we should count these download accelerators as 1
code 200 request and n code 206 requests, and since we only consider
code 200 requests, we'd count them as 1 download.

All the best,
Karsten


> 
> And for those wondering about our current logging approach, see
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20928
> http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2016-December/003645.html
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/mirror/dsa-puppet.git/tree/modules/apache2/files/logformat-privacy
> 
> --Roger
> 
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