another reason to keep ExcludeNodes

[John Brooks]

No, the middle node cannot change data. It can, however, randomly cut out
and drop circuits, connections, or drop off the face of the earth entirely.
That is probably what was happening to him. The middle node essentially
knows nothing (other than who the entry and exit nodes are), so there would
be no benefit to doing so either.

 - John Brooks

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Mitar <mmitar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Scott Bennett <bennett at cs.niu.edu>
> wrote:
> >     In the particular case I was describing, the node that was
> consistently
> > appearing in the circuits that cut off files happened not to be an exit
> in
> > any of the failure cases.  IIRC, it was nearly always in a middleman
> position,
> > though I think there was a day when it was an entry guard.
>
> Middle node can change payload without next node noticing that? There
> is not checksuming/signing in the process?
>
>
> Mitar
>
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