16 Aug
2012
16 Aug
'12
8:38 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:51:03AM +0800, Lorenz Kirchner wrote:
Yes, assuming the users would not give up out of frustration before :-) We can actually do the math: According to [0], at the moment the Tor network has an advertised bandwidth of 3000 MiB/s. Let's assume that all Chinese relays would account for 30 MiB/s. Even then, the probability of a Chinese relay being selected as first hop is only 30/3000 = 0.01 = 1%!
How long does it take to make 100 circuit attempts?
That would depend on when your OS thinks, a TCP connection timed out. It could be quite a while if you count several seconds for each connection attempt.
Philipp