<blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Does anybody use tortunnel ?<br></blockquote><br>Never heard of it before, so doubt it.<br><br>
<blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Is tortunnel evil since it maybe hacks Tor-cirucits to reduce the number<br>
of relays ?<br></blockquote><br>We discourage people from reducing the circuit length since it cripples the anonymity tor provides, makes exit nodes more tasty targets since they can correlate users to exit traffic, etc. There's been several discussion of this in the archives.<br>
<br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Where is the security/anonymity reduction since tortunnel also uses<br>
Tor ?<br></blockquote><br>It's equivalent to using a single hop proxy.<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Can Tor itself reduce the number of relays (like tortunnel) ?<br>
</blockquote><br>No, nor do we want it to.<br><br>Cheers! -Damian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Attac Heidenheim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:heidenheim@attac.de">heidenheim@attac.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi everybody,<br>
I just tried a little tool called "Tortunnel" which allows a user to<br>
"tunnel" Tor via Privoxy/Polipo to any selected exitnode. Just one hop<br>
instead of three relays.<br>
Of course, if the exitnode ist evil, you're lost, but it really speeds<br>
up the whole thing on the other hand.<br>
Website: <a href="http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/tortunnel/" target="_blank">http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/tortunnel/</a><br>
<br>
My questions:<br>
Does anybody use tortunnel ?<br>
Is tortunnel evil since it maybe hacks Tor-cirucits to reduce the number<br>
of relays ?<br>
Where is the security/anonymity reduction since tortunnel also uses<br>
Tor ?<br>
Can Tor itself reduce the number of relays (like tortunnel) ?<br>
<br>
Greetings,<br>
Niklas<br>
<br>
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