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-    Jan 09

+    <a id="Jan09"></a>

+    <a class="anchor" href="#Jan09">Jan 09</a>

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+    <small><em>The testing phase has been concluded. Testing was performed

+    in a public beta phase with all changes to hidden services being part

+    of the 0.2.1.x-alpha series. The result of the public beta phase is a

+    couple of identified bugs that could already be fixed.</em></small>

+    <br/>

+    <small><em>Another part of testing was a second set of measurements

+    that was performed in December. A

+    <a href="http://freehaven.net/~karsten/hidserv/comparison-2009-01-15.pdf">comparison</a>

+    of measurements performed in June and December has revealed that the

+    changes of this project are effective. Service publication times could

+    be more than halved from 2:12 minutes to 58 seconds in the mean. This

+    improvement is far better than expected. With this improvement it might

+    even be worthwile to think about reducing stabilization time from 30

+    seconds to a lower value in the future. However, connection

+    establishment remains at approximately 56 seconds between requesting a

+    hidden service to having established a connection to the hidden server.

+    The main reason for missing improvements is the switch from the

+    centralized to a decentralized storage for hidden service descriptors.

+    This deteriorating effect of distributing the hidden service directory

+    has not been expected before. Future work should focus on improving

+    downloads from the distributed hidden service directory, for example by

+    parallelizing requests.</em></small>

+    <br/>

+    <small><em>This report concludes the series of monthly status updates.

+    The rollout of the 0.2.1.x series including the hidden service

+    performance improvements is going to take place within the next weeks

+    to months.</em></small>

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