[tor-relays] More Tor measurements next week [opt out]
Zachary Newman
zjn at mit.edu
Wed May 26 12:53:36 UTC 2021
tl;dr: Low-load measurements coming; no action needed unless you
would like to opt out.
Hi all,
Next week (week of 2021-05-31), we will be starting a wide-scale
measurement of the latencies between relays on the Tor network for
a research project; these measurements will last an estimated 1-2
months. We have the permission of the Tor Research Safety Board
and this information will ultimately be used to improve the
network. Further, the load at any one time on the Tor network from
these measurements will be limited and negligible (approximately
the same load as the start-up tests of a few new Tor clients).
We are coordinating with the currently-running speed test[1], and
will start our measurements after the conclusion of this speed
test. If you operate a relay and would like to opt out of these
measurements, please send us an email (shortor at csail.mit.edu)
including the fingerprint of your relay(s). We will stop sending
you traffic and, if the test has begun, delete past measurements
involving your relay(s). Status updates will be posted
publicly[2], and we will bump this thread before we start and if
anything important changes. Please contact shortor at csail.mit.edu
with any questions.
Regards,
Zack Newman (on behalf of the ShorTor team)
[1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2021-May/019649.html
[2] https://people.csail.mit.edu/zjn/tor.txt
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