Tunnel length (WAS: Re: Tor sketches)

Echo Nolan hellish at comcast.net
Wed Apr 13 22:51:57 UTC 2005


On approxiamately Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:10:49PM -0400 , Nick Mathewson wrote:
> Also please be aware: there is probably no security benefit to
> changing your path length to anything higher than 3;
Why not? It would seem to me that increasing path length would increase
the strength of anonymity by increasing the number of keys that would
need to be cracked/stolen. What attack defeats this?
Regards,
Echo Nolan
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