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So if I wanted to modfiy a client proxy (assume this is modifed to allow 1 hop) to do one hop, will the other relays (not modified) in my private network reject the connection? > Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:34:08 -0400 > From: arma@xxxxxxx > To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: tor path length > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:17:14PM -0700, skaoth skaoth wrote: > > I've setup a private Tor network to do some testing on. I'm trying > > to find out how to change the default path length to a client specified > > value. I'm interested in both values less and greater than the default. > [...] > > Is this hardcoded into the executable? Will I have to modify the source > > to allow this? > > It's hard-coded. Part of the intuition for that is described here: > > https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#VariablePathLength > > You can change it in the code -- look at the desired_path_len element. > > We periodically hear from users who think Tor is great but it's too slow, > and they don't want that stupid anonymity stuff anyway, and if they > could just use it as a set of single-hop proxies they'd be happy. > > Note that most Tor relays won't let you do one-hop paths, and that's a > security feature for the relay: to quote from the above FAQ entry, > "Currently there is no reason to suspect that investigating a single > relay will yield user-destination pairs, but if many people are using > only a single hop, we make it more likely that attackers will seize or > break into relays in hopes of tracing users." > > Hope that helps, > --Roger > Back to work after baby– how do you know when you’re ready? |