[tor-dev] meek-server performance improvements?

2016-04-24 Thread David Fifield
I saw you say on IRC that you had an idea for improving the efficiency of meek-server. What's your idea? The server hosting meek-azure is passing 90% CPU at times. One idea I've seen is using one connection for upstream data (data-carrying POSTs, emptry responses), and one connection for

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC16] A website to improve Tor fingerprinting defenses

2016-04-24 Thread Pierre Laperdrix
That's a very good question! The website is first and foremost aimed to improve the Tor browser (even though it will open its doors to every browsers after that). This means that, at first, we would only collect fingerprints coming from Tor browsers and not from users redirecting their network

Re: [tor-dev] [GSoC16] A website to improve Tor fingerprinting defenses

2016-04-24 Thread Virgil Griffith
It's unclear to me how this would be different than standard panopticlick with >50% of the users using TBB. But those not using TBB with had browser statistics like the rest of the web (for example, all of the tor2web traffic). -V On Sunday, 24 April 2016, Pierre Laperdrix

[tor-dev] [GSoC16] A website to improve Tor fingerprinting defenses

2016-04-24 Thread Pierre Laperdrix
Hi Tor Community! My name is Pierre and I'm a second year PhD student from France working on browser fingerprinting. I'm really fortunate that my proposal for this year Google Summer of Code has been been selected. My goal for this summer is to set up a website similar to Panopticlick or

[tor-dev] CollecTor has a new Git home

2016-04-24 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi devs, the CollecTor Git repository just moved from metrics-db to collector: https://gitweb.torproject.org/collector.git/ The old name made sense when the Tor network data archive was still part of Metrics, but it's rather confusing since