[tor-talk] Contents of PirateBrowser 0.6b

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:35:19AM -0400, krishna e bera wrote:
> On 13-08-31 12:25 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 04:29:18PM +0000, Matt Pagan wrote:
> >> # Configured for speed
> > 
> > Just for the record, the three lines here don't help speed much (or
> > maybe at all).
> > 
> >> ExcludeSingleHopRelays 0
> > 
> > This first line says it's ok to use relays that allow you to make one-hop
> > circuits. Roughly speaking, there aren't any relays like that in the
> > network (it's not the default). And even if there were, it wouldn't make
> > the circuits your client builds any speedier (except I guess through
> > a second-order effect where you're willing to use relays that all the
> > other clients are unwilling to use).
> 
> Perhaps they meant latency?
> That could affect the response time and perceived speed of page
> rendering more than the total byte throughput.

To be clear: you will still use 3-hop circuits when you set
ExcludeSingleHopRelays to 0.

--Roger