On 02/22/2017 12:04 PM, Ivan Vilata-i-Balaguer wrote: > Christian Grothoff (2017-02-21 13:43:56 +0100) wrote: > >> On 02/21/2017 11:04 AM, Ivan Vilata-i-Balaguer wrote: >>>>> 7. The system is amenable to privacy-preserving analytics to check its >>>>> impact. >>>> I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but these two sound fraught with >>>> distractions. Tor has many people who worked on 7. We do have ideas >>>> around network size estimation that might be relevant depending upon >>>> the scale and network properties. >>> 6 refers to e.g. not storing/routing plain text but encrypted content >>> (your own or other's). 7 I guess may be hard for such >>> privacy-preserving systems, but at the very least having an idea on the >>> size of the network would be very useful to assess the anonymity it >>> actually provides. >> >> Well, then you should definitively check out this: >> >> https://gnunet.org/gnunet-nse-subsystem >> >> (Note that size of network and anonymity-set-size may not exactly be the >> same thing. However, for checking social impact with respect to sponsors >> and/or getting a first rough handle this ought to suffice.) > > Indeed, thanks! BTW, do you know about anyone who has run this to > publish some estimates (academic paper or informal) about the current > size of the network?
Well, we've not made a release in a while and the installation is non-trivial, so the GNUnet network is still rather small. But it doesn't take a study to figure it out, just run: $ gnunet-nse 1487784422756253 93.986384 6.554380 2.409871 1487784422756253 Timestamp 93.986384 Current estimate (~94 peers) 6.554380 LOG2-of-estimate (raw value that was measured) 2.409871 std-dev of LOG The result will be updated roughly hourly. An academic paper about the method itself is here: http://grothoff.org/christian/rrsize2012.pdf
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