The Tor network is comprised of thousands of volunteer-run relays around the world, and millions of people rely on it for privacy and freedom online everyday. To monitor the Tor network's performance, detect attacks on it, and better distribute load across the network, we employ what we call Tor bandwidth scanners.
We added a new directory authority last month, increasing the diversity and stability of the directory authority system. The latest authority, named “Bastet” after the ancient Egyptian goddess, is run by Tor contributor Stefani.
Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of circuit build
timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve performance. We
Earlier this year, we started looking for a new hosting location for a directory authority outside th
On October 11, we released Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha.
It can be downloaded from https://www.torproject.org/download/.
I'm researching where to host one or two Directory Authorities outside
the US and EU.