[tor-talk] Who runs the Tor Network? An Overview using MyFamily Data

[Virgil Griffith]

"We still lack the "gamification" Relay Challenge website that Virgil
was talking about. It would just sum up all relays of a family, and
then it really does not matter any more."

for what it's worth this website has been started.  I'll post a beta to
tor-talk when it's presentable.  I remain very optimistic about the "impact
per unit effort" for such a gamification site.

-V


On Saturday, March 21, 2015, Nusenu <nusenu at openmailbox.org> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> currently we use globe [1] compass [2] or old school torstatus [3] to
> get an overview of what relays are around and who might operate them.
>
> None of these 'tools' provide an easy way to aggregate relay data to
> have a look at the bigger picture (Who runs most of the tor network?).
>
> I generated* a preliminary overview based on MyFamily data, that
> should provide an overview of the big tor relay operators:
>
>
> https://github.com/nusenu/misc-files/blob/master/biggest_tor_relay_operators_by_MyFamily.txt
> (Only the top 15 have names next to them because that was a manual task ;)
>
> In the future that table might just be another compass checkbox saying
> "Group by MyFamily" (or a static page generated once an hour).
>
> Note: If you compare this with other overviews that uses contactInfo
> to aggregate relays
> https://github.com/nusenu/misc-files/blob/master/tor-relays_by_contact.txt
> you will notice some big operators are missing. That means that they
> are not using MyFamily (properly).
> Also because MyFamily is a cumbersome setting for relay operators
> there might be misconfigurations** that result in multiple
> (overlapping) families.
>
> Positive side effect: By using MyFamily to aggregate relays, I hope to
> creating incentives for relay operators to actually configure MyFamily
> on their relays. MyFamily avoids using multiple relays - operated by a
> single entity - in a single tor client circuit.
>
> Also, relay ops running many "smaller" relays hopefully will become
> more visible (and receive more acknowledgments for their
> contributions) [4].
>
> If you are a relay operator yourself, you can easily check if you
> configured your relays properly by entering any of your relay
> fingerprints on https://compass.torproject.org (family field). If the
> search result does not show all your relays then there is something
> wrong with your MyFamily configuration.
>
> regards,
> Nusenu
>
>
> [1] https://globe.torproject.org/#/top10
> [2]
>
> https://compass.torproject.org/#?exit_filter=all_relays&links&sort=cw&sort_reverse&country=
> [3] http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/
>
> [4]
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-February/006436.html
> Moritz wrote:
> "We still lack the "gamification" Relay Challenge website that Virgil
> was talking about. It would just sum up all relays of a family, and
> then it really does not matter any more."
>
>
> *) basically compass -f in a loop has been used to generate that overview.
> I also required at least two members in a Family - which is a bad idea
> because you will "loose" single big relays like IPredator - this will
> be changed.
>
> **) This should become less of a problem for relay ops with tools like
> ansible
> https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor
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