Re: [Help-gnunet] Building a new censorship circumvention tool: what do we need to know?

[Ivan Vilata-i-Balaguer]

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?

-- 
Ivan Vilata i Balaguer