What are Tor guards?

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:09:55AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I keep bumping into the term "Tor guard nodes", but I failed to find it
> documented. It gets referenced all the time.
> 
> Can someone point to where I need to RTFM in order to understand what
> that is?

http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#EntryGuards

Also see Section 5 of
https://tor.eff.org/svn/trunk/doc/spec/path-spec.txt

--Roger