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And if DDoS attacks could enhance the anonymity of the Tor network?
The most effective approach for an attacker would be to establish Tor routing and send packets to trigger a chain reaction across 3 or more relays.
Now, couldn’t these attacks potentially be an ...
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How do I use one and only node?
I'm looking forward to using Tor like a VPN.
I learned about EntryNodes, ExitNodes, and MiddleNodes and how to set the country code for each and setting StrictNode 1 or something. When I set all these ...
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What's the difference between 'secret_id_key' and 'ed25519_master_id_key'?
I'm running a TOR relay and I'm confused with the node identity keys. The secret_id_key is the identity key that was used in version 2, but now the ed25519_master_id_key is used for version 3?
Thanks.
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TOR browser - -ExcludeNodes doesn't work
Using Linux, at torrc.
Format used: (at end file)
ExcludeNodes {...},{...},{...},{...}
ExcludeExitNodes {...},{...},{...},{...}
Continues connecting to excluded country nodes.
Know how to fix?
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In onion v3 services, how does the client know the "HSDir" that have the necessary descriptor to connect to the onion service?
I've read the "Tor Rendezvous Specification - Version 3" and I can't find out how the client knows the "HSDir" nodes that store the onion service descriptor that indicates the introduction points ...
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Are Tor network nodes/relays proxies? If not, what is the difference?
I would like to know if there is any difference between the concept of "proxy" and the nodes (also known as relays) that make up the Tor network. I mean: Are the nodes proxies themselves? If not, what'...
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How to check the realtime data transfer amount of my Tor relay
Recently I have set up a Tor relay, I can view the approximate data usage from the [Heartbeat] notifications, but as far as I know you can't manually activate it. As well, I'm SSHing to my server, and ...
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Configuring my Tor browser to use more than three relays (nodes)
The title of the question speaks for it self. Can I configure Tor to use more than three relays (nodes)? I suppose that it won't be possible inside the native Tor Browser, because that can only use ...
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Why my Tor relay server only use 10-15% of my bandwidth?
my relay (https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/FA371BD2B25519D65B956BB732938E28BB4FE809) has a traffic rate of 500kbits and some very short peaks to 3mb. But why only 500kbits? I have enough ...
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