60 new neu.edu relays in 16 minutes
Hello privacy@ccs.neu.edu, DocTor and OrNetRadar detected that someone added 60 tor relays [1] with your email address in the contact info field on 2017-08-08 between 15:45 and 16:01 UTC. [1] https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetRadar/2017/08/08/a7.html Since tor relay contact information is not authenticated I was wondering if these are in fact your relays? (I guess they are) You obviously don't have to answer but if you want to I'm curious: Are these just temporary relays and part of your research or are they here to stay to increase the capacity of the tor network for more than just a few weeks or months? I assume you are not planing to run them for a longer period of time (>6months), but if you do you: Please consider network diversity when adding that amount of tor relay capacity. All your relays are operated in AS "Online S.a.s" - which is already the second biggest AS in terms of tor network capacity. +-----------------------------+-------------+ | AS Name | CW Fraction | +-----------------------------+-------------+ | OVH SAS | 15.95 | | Online S.a.s. | 13.41 | | Hetzner Online GmbH | 7.74 | | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 6.65 | | myLoc managed IT AG | 2.63 | +-----------------------------+-------------+ Also the country (FR) is not ideal from a diversity point of view. thanks for running relays, nusenu Note: There is nothing wrong with adding 60 tor relays, especially with proper MyFamily configuration as you did. -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu https://twitter.com/nusenu_
On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 05:03:00PM +0000, nusenu wrote:
Note: There is nothing wrong with adding 60 tor relays, especially with proper MyFamily configuration as you did.
Hi Nusenu, You beat me by a day -- I had drafted my earlier mail about the two research groups running relays, but decided to save it until I'd gotten some sleep. :) In this case, you can read more about their research plans here: http://tor.ccs.neu.edu/ And I bet some of the researchers are on this list, if you want to ask them more detailed questions. Thanks, --Roger
Roger Dingledine:
In this case, you can read more about their research plans here: http://tor.ccs.neu.edu/
Thank you for that pointer. (Putting that URL into the contactInfo string - like the onionpop relays do - would have saved some time) -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu https://twitter.com/nusenu_
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