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Interesting. Looking for more info on what you were talking about (with regard to "guards"), I dug up this post[1] which has some info too. [1]: https://blog.t
by stock_toaster 7y ago
Interesting. Looking for more info on what you were talking about (with regard to "guards"), I dug up this post[1] which has some info too.
[1]: https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-vanguards-add-onion-services https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-vanguards-add-onion-s...
- ohmygodel 7y agoThe page you link describes "vanguards" which apply the guard logic to positions beyond the first hop. They are only available as a plug-in that you must separately download and configure. My understanding is that no plans currently exist to integrate vanguards into Tor due to cost of engineering challenges that appear if everybody were to use them (including especially how they would affect load balancing).
- stock_toaster 7y agoThanks for the follow up info and additional explanation!
- ohmygodel 7y agoThis is probably the best description of how Tor uses guards: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/guard-spec.txt https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/guard-spec.tx....