question about router depth

Robert Hogan robert at roberthogan.net
Sun Jan 28 18:46:38 UTC 2007


On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:28, Rob wrote:
> I was listening to the security now podcast on twit about tor and I think
> they got it all wrong.  They made it sound like you could go through as
> many routers as you configure it to do.  I will send them an email.
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> Rob
>
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:28:28 -0500, Dan Collins <en.wp.st47 at gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > 3. You are always going through 3 other routers, and there is no way to
> > change that.
> >

Unless I've misunderstood the question, you *can* create circuits with more 
than 3 routers. You can also use them. I just created a 4 router circuit with 
tork and fetched the rss feed from www.kde.org with it.

So your information is correct.

That said, there is no benefit to using more than 3 routers. And a stream with 
anything less than 3 is not very anonymous.


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