Towards Modernising Data Collection and Archive for the Tor Network
This work addresses maintenance challenges for the Tor Project's data collection system, but it is incremental as it focuses on updating an existing service without introducing new methods or broad impacts.
The paper tackled the need to modernize the CollecTor service for archiving Tor network data by defining requirements and evaluating frameworks to reduce maintenance costs, but did not report specific numerical results.
CollecTor is developed by Tor Project's Metrics Team for the purpose of archiving data relating to the public Tor network and applications developed by Tor Project. This report distills the requirements for a prototype modernized replacement of the CollecTor service, and evaluates frameworks and libraries that are available to reduce code maintenance costs for the CollecTor service.