I do not think Tor necessarily requires 3 hops. See https://tor.stackexchange.com/a/497 https://tor.stackexchange.com/a/497. It's just that 3 hops provide signi

I do not think Tor necessarily requires 3 hops. See https://tor.stackexchange.com/a/497 https://tor.stackexchange.com/a/497. It's just that 3 hops provide significant incremental benefit over 2 hops.