References

Related software and libraries with useful routines:

• onbasca
• sbws
• Stem
• txtorcon
• Onionbalance
• hs-health

Relevant issues:

• Write a hidden service hsdir health measurer
• Write tool for onion service health assessment

Research questions:

• When an onion service lookup has failed at the first k HSDirs we tried, what are the chances it will still succeed?
• What's the average number of hsdir fetches before we get the hsdesc?