Message: 2 Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:54:33 +0200 From: Michael Armbruster <tor@armbrust.me> To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Using your own Relay as Entry Node (Yawning Angel) Message-ID: <5710BA59.5040303@armbrust.me> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"

Hi Fr33d0m4All,

In my opinion, you could use your own tor relay as an entry node, although you should think about it this way, too: Browsing through the tor network usually establishes a route through 3 nodes from your side. Always going through your own relay as an entry node means, only two of the three nodes are changing each time you establish a new route to a server.

In my opinion, you are just moving the "trusted entry node" problem to a "trusted middle node" problem, although traffic will be more obfuscated for the middle node because other users could use it over your relay as well.

A think that a bad middle node is not really a big problem, compared to a bad entry or exit node... Furthermore by having at least a fixed trusted node, your own (unless someone compromises it..), you are sure that you don't have any bad circuit, i.e. 3 bad ORs. Then I agree that a list of trusted entry nodes can be better than a single entry node.. But I wait for some comments by people that know the whole picture better than me, which I'm still in the learning process. Thank you very much for your opinion! Fr33d0m4All