question about router depth

[Ringo Kamens]

You can do more than 3 routers but I think you have to recompile the
source. In addition, no extra anonymity is provided (except for
crossing country lines which can create legal problems for oppression
forces). It also puts a much larger drain on your connection and the
tor network. Have you thought about routing tor through some public
socks proxies?
Ringo

On 1/28/07, Robert Hogan <robert at roberthogan.net> wrote:
> 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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