[tor-dev] HSDir Auth and onion descriptor scraping

[George Kadianakis]

Gareth Owen <gareth.owen at port.ac.uk> writes:

> Grarpamp
>
> I'm only not publishing it because of privacy concerns - ultimately some HS
> operators might not wish to have their existence publically known..  I
> would be open to supplying it to bona fide and verifiable tor project
> members if it is for a legitimate research purpose.
>
> I am collecting version 2 descriptors.  I have exactly 445994 hidden
> service descriptors - for approximately 70,000 unique hidden services.  I
> do not believe the introduction points are secret, having a list of IPs
> doesn't help you connect to the hidden service.
>

>From the number of introduction points you might be able to deduce the
popularity of the hidden service. Fortunately, this feature doesn't
work very well: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8950