[SSL Observatory] other runs?

Peter Eckersley pde at eff.org
Mon Jun 6 11:36:53 PDT 2011


On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Chris Palmer wrote:
> On Jun 6, 2011, at 12:12 AM, Robert Malmgren wrote:
> 
> > The dataset's available from the www.eff.org site are from august and
> > december. Are there any newer runs to collect updated info planned from
> > EFF? Or is that an exercise left to the reader?
> 
> We would like to do another run, but that is less important to us than our next project: a Decentralized Observatory, in which clients all over the world send us results piecemeal and continually, from their perspective on the internet. We are building the database on one of our servers, and the client will be bundled with our Firefox plugin HTTPS Everywhere.
> 
> The Decentralized Observatory is in development and Coming Real Soon Now. :)
> 
> > Another question - how did you select the IP ranges you choose to visit?
> 
> We scanned the entire IPv4 address space.

Correction: all the IPv4 address space that was assigned by IANA per this
file:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml

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