[tor-talk] how many verify their tbb ?

shmick at riseup.net shmick at riseup.net
Tue Jul 29 04:52:30 UTC 2014



Andrew Lewman wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 02:09:12PM +1000, shmick at riseup.net wrote 0.3K bytes in 0 lines about:
> : are there any stats available to see the % of people who verify their
> : tbb download (cross ref same IP for both the .xz and .asc or shasum txt
> : file ???) as a % of total tbb downloads ?
> 
> Here's a rough idea from my website mirror:
> 
> Since 20 July 2014: 
> 
> cat access.log| cut -d" " -f7 | grep tor*browser | grep -v html| grep -v png| sort | grep -cv .asc
> 9122
> 
> cat access.log| cut -d" " -f7 | grep tor*browser | grep -v html| grep -v png| sort | grep -c .asc
> 1624
> 
> This includes all requests (404, 200, 302, etc). 
> 
> So roughly, 9122:1624 or 18% if I did my top-of-the-head math right. And
> technically, this is just requests for the .asc file, no idea if the
> person/bot actually ran gpg --verify on it.
> 

nginx maybe ?
that's interestingly high - i would have put money on < 5%
of course, we can't measure/know the human verification (or can we)


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