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Re: What's the benefit of a permanent "EntryGuard"?
On 8/30/2006 7:25 PM, Bestbayer@xxxxxxx wrote:
My question is, what's the security of having a person you always connect
to when you don't know them? What if the person is malicious? Isn't it
better to connect to different people, especially if you're not running
a server?
From http://tor.eff.org/tor-manual.html.en:
UseEntryGuards 0|1
If this option is set to 1, we pick a few long-term entry servers,
and try to stick with them. This is desirable because constantly
changing servers increases the odds that an adversary who owns some
servers will observe a fraction of your paths. (Defaults to 1.)
I suppose it is only a good idea if the EntryGuards are trusted. I
noticed on http://belegost.mit.edu/tor/status/authority that two of my
three current EntryGuards are annotated with "Guard", but I don't know
what that means, exactly.
As of now, I have an automator script that deletes the "state" file
in the /users/home/.tor directory each time I log into my computer.
You could just set UseEntryGuards to 0.
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