[SSL Observatory] other runs?

Chris Palmer chris at eff.org
Tue Jun 7 11:03:48 PDT 2011


On Jun 7, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> Another thing that'd be nice is to provide the results in a somewhat easier-
> to-deal-with format, they currently function as a pretty serious filesystem
> stress-test, and the fact that they're scattered all over a mass of
> directories and mixed in with non-certificates makes them rather a pain to
> process even if your filesystem hasn't collapsed already just trying to store
> them.  If I could make a wishlist, it'd be to have them in fixed directories
> ("0001", "0002", etc), maybe 10K per directory, don't store non-certs, and
> store standard cert chains rather than SSL handshake dumps.

Yeah, I am sorry it's difficult. The Official Easier Way to handle the data is to use our EC2 storage volume snapshot. That's also the cheapest way to get a really powerful computer, which you'll want anyway.

https://www.eff.org/observatory/cloud

Because we have limited time, we are spending it on the Decentralized Observatory. I don't anticipate having any spare time to work on an easier packaging of the existing data. I wish I did...

I think the Decentralized Observatory data set will be richer, more current, and also easier to access (probably a REST API, but I don't know if that has been spec'd yet).


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Chris Palmer
Technology Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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