Re: [tor-dev] Python ExoneraTor

2014-06-10 Thread Kostas Jakeliunas
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 10/06/14 05:41, Damian Johnson wrote: let me make one remark about optimizing Postgres defaults: I wrote quite a few database queries in the past, and some of them perform horribly (relay search) whereas others perform re

Re: [tor-dev] Python ExoneraTor

2014-06-10 Thread Kostas Jakeliunas
Hi all! On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 09/06/14 01:26, Damian Johnson wrote: >> Oh, and another quick thought - you once mentioned that a descriptor >> search service would make ExoneraTor obsolete, and in looking it over >> I agree. The search functionality ExoneraT

[tor-dev] Reminder: tor development meetings this (and every) Wednesday, 19:00 UTC

2014-06-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
Here's your regular reminder for the weekly IRC meeting for people working on the program "tor". (This won't cover all the other programs developed under the Tor umbrella.) The next meeting time will be: Wednesday June 11, 19:00 UTC. (That's 3pm EDT and 12:00 noon PDT.) As usual, we'll do

[tor-dev] GSoC: BridgeDB Twitter Distributor report

2014-06-10 Thread Kostas Jakeliunas
Hey all, in the past weeks I've been working on understanding what can be done using Twitter APIs and its media support in its CDN (for a later captcha implementation), as well as on improving my existing Twitter bridge distributor bot PoC. I've written some broken code, but it's alright. More det

Re: [tor-dev] [Tor2web] Proposal for improving social incentives for relay operators

2014-06-10 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi Virgil, I think a modified atlas that has a better top relay list and plays with various (non-financial) gamification concepts is long due. When you look at BOINC/SETI, it can work well. I agree that by simply interfacing with onionoo (plus probably some aggregation of data), you can generate a

Re: [tor-dev] [Tor2web] Proposal for improving social incentives for relay operators

2014-06-10 Thread Virgil Griffith
General remarks: * I agree 100% with your Dec 2013 post. * All data I seek to make available in "Torati" is available from Onionoo. The proposal is to interface to Torati is like ATLAS but keyed by Tor nickname. * However, where Atlas intends primarily to be a reference, Torati aims to

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC 2014] Revamp GetTor: Send HTTP links for downloading TBB

2014-06-10 Thread Israel Leiva
2014-06-10 0:27 GMT-04:00 : > > Hello Israel, > > Hi Michael. > How do you qualify 'difficult?' Is this a duration matter or are > there timeouts and repeated stream downloads? Is it a financial > (money per megaoctet) problem for the users? > > Actually, this is how Nima described it, giving

[tor-dev] GSoC: Multicore daemon status report

2014-06-10 Thread Белоус Михаил
Hi all, As start of my project, I made patch to work queue, making thread pool more efficient and wrote some benchmarks. Future work 1.Rewrite architecture of tor circuit processing, to use thread pool 2.Write benchmarks showing, that multi core implementation efficient, or not? Most of my work

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal for improving social incentives for relay operators

2014-06-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 06/09/2014 08:26 PM, Virgil Griffith wrote: > For a while I've been seeking to grow the Tor network in both size and > goodput. Towards this end, I've explored various avenues such as > increasing user-awareness via tor2web. More recently, I've been exploring > financial incentives like TorCoi

Re: [tor-dev] Python ExoneraTor

2014-06-10 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 10/06/14 18:14, Damian Johnson wrote: >> ... including searches for other IPv4 addresses in the same >> /24 and other IPv6 addresses in the same /48. > > Ahhh. *That* would indeed make this a lot more of a pita. ExoneraTor > gives no indication that it accepts /24 or /48 ranges. Is that > capab

Re: [tor-dev] Python ExoneraTor

2014-06-10 Thread Damian Johnson
> ... including searches for other IPv4 addresses in the same > /24 and other IPv6 addresses in the same /48. Ahhh. *That* would indeed make this a lot more of a pita. ExoneraTor gives no indication that it accepts /24 or /48 ranges. Is that capability even used by visitors? __

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal for improving social incentives for relay operators

2014-06-10 Thread Karsten Loesing
[Attempting to move this discussion to tor-dev@ to avoid cross-posting; assuming my Reply-To: header won't get eaten by Mailman..] On 10/06/14 02:26, Virgil Griffith wrote: > For a while I've been seeking to grow the Tor network in both size and > goodput. Towards this end, I've explored various

Re: [tor-dev] Python ExoneraTor

2014-06-10 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 10/06/14 05:41, Damian Johnson wrote: >>> let me make one remark about optimizing Postgres defaults: I wrote quite >>> a few database queries in the past, and some of them perform horribly >>> (relay search) whereas others perform really well (ExoneraTor). I >>> believe that the majority of per