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I had that problem too, very slow on network requests, just change the setting "num_relays_proxied" from 3 to 1 to make it blazingly fast.
by rpigab 10mo ago
I had that problem too, very slow on network requests, just change the setting "num_relays_proxied" from 3 to 1 to make it blazingly fast.
- kaoD 10mo agoIf this is sarcastic you should probably add /s or someone might actually follow your "advice".
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- fragmede 10mo agoOr people should not be idiots and think for themselves just a smidge, and not use /s.
- rpigab 10mo agoThey should be fine since I made up the setting name, and even though I am not familiar with Tor client's configuration, I don't believe this is possible without altering its source code. Also, using this kind of software without understanding how its works even just a little doesn't protect much of your privacy.
- adastra22 10mo agoYeah I was confused! Pretty sure this is not configurable.
- deafpolygon 10mo agoYou should preface this with some important information about what that does. There are some trade-offs! Changing that setting to 1 gives you weaker anonymity guarantees. Using multiple guards spreads your traffic across different IP addresses, making it harder for an adversary who controls a subset of the network to correlate your activity. Reducing to a single guard concentrates all traffic through one point, increasing the chance that a hostile relay could observe a larger fraction of your streams...
- adastra22 10mo agoThe setting doesn’t exist.
- willvarfar 10mo agoThen the single relay knows both who you are (your IP) and where you are going. This offers no anonymity against the relay itself. 3 relays is the goldilocks number for speed vs privacy. Using less is not a tradeoff the usual user of Tor should make.
- 1313ed01 10mo agoHow is 3 so much better than 2, but 4 not so much better than 3?
- willvarfar 10mo ago1 = no privacy from relay 2 = risk of collusion between relays 3 = goldilocks default 4 = ... actually, you have more attack surface and you are more susceptible to fingerprinting because everybody else is using 3, so you're timings etc help identify you So the default is 3 and nobody ought change it! Use 3 like everybody else. The exception is .onion sites. TOR actually deliberately defaults to 6 hops when accessing .oninon sites - 3 to protect you and 3 to project the site.
- Surac 10mo agoThat reminds me of the holy Handgranate of the Monty pythons
- flipped 10mo agoThere's no exit nodes for onions because there's nothing to exit to. Nothing beats anonymity of onions and it's design is well created.
- mapt 10mo agoThe right number for you to use is the default. But the right default is not necessarily 3.
- nostrademons 10mo agoKnowing not so much about Tor but some about math: the number of nodes you need to compromise in order to de-anonymize a Tor user is exponential in the number of hops. Google says there are roughly 7000 Tor nodes, including 2000 guards (entry) and 1000 exit nodes. If you have a single hop, there's roughly a 1/1000 chance that you will connect to a single malicious node that can de-anonymize you, going up linearly with the number of nodes an attacker controls. If you have 3 hops, you have a 1 in 1000 * 7000 * 2000 = roughly 14 billion chance. 2 hops would give you 1 in 2 million, 4 hops would give you 1 in 1000 * 7000 * 7000 * 2000 = 98 trillion. In practical terms 1:14B is about the same as 1:98T (i.e. both are effectively zero), but 1:2M is a lot higher.
- flipped 10mo agoWhat's the point of having one relay? You're better off using a reputable VPN like mullvad or ivpn. Tor is the best you're gonna get for low latency anonymous overlay network. It's been studied and refined over the years.
- raxxorraxor 10mo agoIt would shifts part of the data route info from your provider toward that particular relay. But I wouldn't recommend it of course.
- flipped 10mo agoOf course it would hence you should stick with mullvad, a reputable VPN. Tor is not made for single relay paths, you're just wasting it's potential.
- mapt 10mo agoIt's very difficult for me to contemplate how anybody could run a VPN, however reputable, that isn't compromised by one intelligence agency at least. Their incentive structures and their costs to participate in this space just make it a no-brainer. If you're starting a brand new VPN company with ironclad ideals about privacy - are you going to be able to compete with state-run enterprises that can subsidize their own competing "businesses", on top of whatever coercive authority they possess to intervene in local small businesses?
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- Aurornis 10mo agoThis is a joke, for those who didn’t notice. Tor is slow because traffic is routed through multiple layers. The design priority is anonymity, not speed.
- paulddraper 10mo agoYour config improvement made it into Google AI https://i.imgur.com/v5DsXy9.png https://i.imgur.com/v5DsXy9.png