[tor-talk] Tor Bridges No Longer Work

[andrew at torproject.org]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:02:03PM +0000, moeedsalam at gmail.com wrote 1.5K bytes in 44 lines about:
: > If tor connects without bridges, then you really don't need them.
: Well isn't it an extra bit of security so your isp doesnt know you are
: connecting to TOR?

It can do that, assuming your ISP is cross-referencing every IP accessed
with a list of current tor relays.

Using a bridge can also speed up your tor circuits if your connection to
the bridge is fast. It would be interesting to test this configuration
to get some hard data behind it.

-- 
Andrew
pgp key: 0x74ED336B