Author: mttp Date: 2014-07-12 01:16:53 +0000 (Sat, 12 Jul 2014) New Revision: 26862
Modified: website/trunk/docs/en/faq.wml Log: More than 3 hops can harm anonymity (FAQ).
Modified: website/trunk/docs/en/faq.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/docs/en/faq.wml 2014-07-11 13:00:56 UTC (rev 26861) +++ website/trunk/docs/en/faq.wml 2014-07-12 01:16:53 UTC (rev 26862) @@ -4339,11 +4339,11 @@ <p> We don't want to encourage people to use paths longer than this -- it increases load on the network without (as far as we can tell) providing - any more security. Remember that <a - href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/tor/trunk/doc/design-paper/tor-design.html#su... + any more security. In fact, using paths longer than 3 could harm anonymity + ("Oh, there's that person who changed her path length again"). Remember that +<a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/tor/trunk/doc/design-paper/tor-design.html#subsec:threat-model"> the best way to attack Tor is to attack the endpoints and ignore the middle - of the path -</a>. + of the path</a>. </p> <p> And we don't want to encourage people to use paths of length 1 either.