On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 09:08:49AM +0100, Karsten Loesing wrote:
On 23/10/14 19:32, David Fifield wrote:
In the past few months of bridge user graphs, there is an apparent negative correlation between obfs3 users and vanilla users: when one goes up, the other goes down. If you draw a horizontal line at about 5500, they are almost mirror images of each other. I don't see it with any other transport pairs. Any idea why it might be?
I briefly looked at the raw data behind this graph, but didn't find any obvious problems with the algorithm. I'm running out of time now, but I can share some preliminary results in case you want to dig deeper:
is the graph that you posted with a third line for mean values.
contains numbers of responses (for requested consensuses) by bridge, transport, and time interval.
I don't understand this file. Is it the number of times a bridge answered a directory request? The number of times a bridge appeared in a consensus? The number of times it was given out by BridgeDB?
shows responses by transport.
shows only <OR> and obfs3 responses over time.
shows only <OR> responses higher than 1000 by fingerprint.
I had trouble opening these in Evince, so I'm attaching PNGs I generated with convert -density 150 x.pdf x.png
is the bridge reporting those high numbers for <OR> responses. Is PacificSunset maybe one of the bundled bridges?
It is indeed: pref("extensions.torlauncher.default_bridge.obfs3.5", "obfs3 208.79.90.242:35658 BA61757846841D64A83EA2514C766CB92F1FB41F");
I don't understand your line of reasoning in singling it out, though. What do high numbers for <OR> responses suggest to you?
David
