One hop proxy [Re: Can nickname be duplicate?]

[Jackie]

> There will be a lot of problems with one-hop circuit. For example, if
> "bad" people know that there are one-hop circuits in the Tor network,
> they will be more interested in attacking Tor, setting up more malicious
> nodes, etc., the consequence is a mess.
>
I do not mean to reduce tor to one-hop proxy. There is trade-off between 
speed and anonymous-preserving. For different user groups have different 
requirement of safety and anonymous, even one user's needs vary from 
different conditions he counters, sometimes he prefers speed and sometimes 
he needs more safety. My opinion is that to let people use their Tor more 
freely, for example, they can free to choose number of hops, they can choose 
a fixed exit node if they trust it, or they can let their Tor to choose path 
ramdomly or they specify a path they consider as reliable.