-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello CollecTor data consumers, note: if you don't know what CollecTor is or if you have never used CollecTor data before, you can safely stop reading now and enjoy your Friday. But in case you're now curious what CollecTor is, feel free to take a look: https://collector.torproject.org/ So, we're about to remove a sanity check in CollecTor where we'd feed relay descriptors into metrics-lib and only serve them if they pass the parsing step. This step has so far eliminated descriptors with non-ASCII characters in unexpected places, like: dirreq-v3-ips us=192,ru=144,de=136,??=112,fr=64,gb=56,br=40,it=40,es=24,in=24,jp=24,pl=24,ar=16,at=16,au=16,ca=16,ch=16,cn=16,cz=16,ir=16,kr=16,mx=16,nl=16,ua=16,za=16,^Wg=8,ae=8,ao=8,be=8,bg=8,bj=8,bo=8,bs=8,bw=8,by=8,cd=8,cl=8,cm=8,co=8,cr=8,cu=8,dd=8,dk=8,du=8,dz=8,ec=8,eg=8,fi=8,gf=8,gh=8,gr=8,gt=8,hk=8,hn=8,hr=8,hu=8,id=8,ie=8,il=8,i�=8,ke=8,kz=8,lk=8,lt=8,lv=8,ly=8,ma=8,md=8,mk=8,mu=8,my=8,nc=8,ng=8,ni=8,no=8,nz=8,pa=8,pe=8,ph=8,pk=8,pr=8,pt=8,ro=8,rs=8,se=8,sg=8,sk=8,sn=8,sy=8,th=8,tn=8,tr=8,tw=8,ug=8,ve=8,vn=8,�p=8 Very soon (next week?), CollecTor will serve those descriptors, just like the Tor directory authorities serve them. If you're obtaining and processing descriptors from CollecTor, you'll somehow have to handle them. Of course, if you're using metrics-lib, nothing changes, and I hear Stem discards descriptors with non-ASCII characters in the line above, too. If you want, you can find more details on the ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19170 All the best, Karsten -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXpGOhAAoJEC3ESO/4X7XBVmoIALbd2AmUEMX6DrzPsEvPLItR YP3ySblh9knkc5NvrGxO/hcYABjX4j5k/smrAotvcT+5qUVyQiXbmD4kO0Rkq5i9 nC4+MkBiuigj4eeXi+Y57oBVuXidJNqFoMFmNpeXxU/csiwsVXsWX/UTnoiox6Cg 5KKnGpr9lr4IQt74Jw1gIYAnhXE6ga8JyWv8dcv0dtOdChl1zsjjCOgFuFpPlFJl ycFAhX0jM+iOpVV8m1WTA0r1PAAAndtKBotCuhGizdfNSRcPiA3hhUFewNxbgY7N b/fvIRQRumNCv2uAYve25iIuL+0vE197rUO9vY8IlRB/po/qDQu8AVp6HjrlZCU= =nzBR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----