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-------- Original Message -------- On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:05 PM, emigrant <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 19:31 +0530, emigrant wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 11:56 -0800, Sam Peterson wrote: >> > Having read the heated discussion regarding some people's suggestion >> > on the list to provide an option to reduce the number of hops in a >> > circuit, I'm curious about something and was wondering if someone >> > smarter than I could enlighten me. >> > >> > <snip> >> > >> >> May i know why people need to reduce the number of hosts? >> i prefer it be increased instead. >> > > i meant to say hops (not hosts) sorry. I don't wish to decrease the number of hops, but recently, some people have posted to the list saying they would like to have the option of decreasing the number of hops in a circuit to decrease latency and improve performance. Reading these discussions got me thinking about why three hops are used instead of two. I now see that the main reason for using three hops is that it gives plausible deniability to exit nodes and entry nodes (not sure if that's the right term, but what I mean is that node operators can be confident that even if their machines are seized, no useful information will be present on them). Certainly this is very important, especially from a legal point of view. Thanks to all who responded. -- Sam Peterson [email protected] [email protected] *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
