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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: Measuring the Tor Network\n   When: Saturday\, Aug 1
 0\, 15:00 - 15:45 PDT\n   Where: LVCC West/Floor 1/Hall 1/Track 4 - [1]Map
 \n\n   Description:\n\n   Millions of people around the world use Tor ever
 y day to protect\n   themselves from surveillance and censorship. While th
 e Tor Browser and\n   its protocol are widely known\, the backbone of the 
 Tor ecosystem\, its\n   extensive network of volunteer relays\, is often s
 ubject to speculation\n   and misinformation. The Tor Project is dedicated
  to supporting this\n   network and fostering a vibrant\, diverse communit
 y of relay operators.\n\n   This talk will focus on our efforts to maintai
 n a healthy network and\n   community\, and detect and mitigate attacks --
  all with the help of\n   metrics and analysis of usage patterns. By illus
 trating how we collect\n   safe-enough metrics for an anonymity network\, 
 we will offer insights\n   into how we identify unusual activity and other
  noteworthy events on\n   the network. We will also discuss our ongoing st
 rategies for\n   addressing current and future network health challenges.\
 n\n   If you are interested in understanding the inner workings of the Tor
 \n   network and its relay community and how we keep this vital ecosystem\
 n   running\, this talk is for you.\n\n     1. Network Health Team wiki: [
 2]link\n\n     2. Two blog posts on Tor network health: [3]link [4]link\n\
 n     3. Collector (where we archive all network data sets): [5]link\n\n  
    4. Paper by Rob Jansen et al. on incentives schemes for relays on\n    
    the Tor network\, "Recruiting New Tor Relays with BRAIDS": [6]link\n\n 
     5. Broader blog post about research papers on incentive for Tor\n     
   relays: [7]link\n\n     6. Research paper by NRL proposing how to measur
 e relay performance\n       in a way that resists attempts to lie about re
 lay speed: [8]link\n\n     7. Our plan to change how we collect\, store an
 d serve Tor network\n       data (discussion from our bug tracker): [9]lin
 k\n\n     8. Performance measurements over the Tor Network: [10]link\n\n  
    9. Onionperf is the tool we use to measure performances from\n       di
 fferent locations across the globe: [11]link\n\n     10. The number of rel
 ays on the network by relay flags: [12]link\n\n     11. Documentation abou
 t reproducible metrics: [13]link\n\n   Speakers:Silvia Puglisi\,Roger Ding
 ledine\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Silvia Puglisi\, Lead\, Network Health at Tor Pr
 oject\n\n   Silvia Puglisi is a Systems Engineer and Privacy Researcher ba
 sed in\n   Barcelona\, EU. She currently leads the network health team at 
 the Tor\n   Project\, focusing on maintaining the stability\, performance\
 , and\n   security of the Tor network. Silvia is also an O'Reilly author a
 nd\n   previously worked at Google for several years. She was part of the\
 n   Information Security Group at the Department of Telematics\n   Enginee
 ring\, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)\, where she\n   earned 
 her Ph.D. Additionally\, she has served as an adjunct professor\n   at the
  Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Roger Dingledin
 e\, Co-Founder and Original Developer at\n   Tor Project\n\n   Roger Dingl
 edine is co-founder and original developer of the Tor\n   Project\, a nonp
 rofit that develops free and open source software to\n   protect people fr
 om tracking\, censorship\, and surveillance online.\n   Roger works with j
 ournalists and activists on many continents to help\n   them understand an
 d defend against the threats they face\, and he is a\n   lead researcher i
 n the online anonymity field. EFF picked him for a\n   Pioneer Award\, and
  Foreign Policy magazine chose him as one of its top\n   100 global thinke
 rs.\n\n   '\n\n   1. #LVCCW_Level1_Hall1\n   2. https://gitlab.torproject.
 org/tpo/network-health/team/-/wikis/home\n   3. https://blog.torproject.or
 g/malicious-relays-health-tor-network/\n   4. https://blog.torproject.org/
 tor-network-community-health-update/\n   5. https://collector.torproject.o
 rg/\n   6. http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~hopper/braids_ccs.pdf\n   7. https
 ://blog.torproject.org/tor-incentives-research-roundup-goldstar-par-braids
 -lira-tears-and-torcoin/\n   8. https://www.ohmygodel.com/publications/fla
 shflow-icdcs2021.pdf\n   9. https://bugs.torproject.org/tpo/network-health
 /metrics/collector/40012\n   10. https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.ht
 ml\n   11. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/onionp
 erf\n   12. https://metrics.torproject.org/relayflags.html\n   13. https:/
 /metrics.torproject.org/reproducible-metrics.html\n\n\n
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LOCATION:DC - LVCC West/Floor 1/Hall 1/Track 4
SUMMARY:Measuring the Tor Network
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