[tor-relays] 8 universities doing joint HS research? (2016-06-12)

[Philipp Winter]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 02:44:16PM +0000, nusenu wrote:
> This looks interesting, 8 new relays joined together:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.onion-routing.ornetradar/1373

These are PlanetLab nodes, as their PTR record shows.  Still, there's
probably a research group behind this as PlanetLab access is limited to
those who contribute nodes, which are mostly companies and universities.

> "hsde" => hidden service discovery?

Yes, a reasonable guess given that they all signed up for the HSDir
flag.  Let's keep an eye on them.