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Guard relays are the first hop of any circuit through Tor. This category is for guard specific questions.
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Using uMatrix add-on in TBB and changing first entry node each time?
Changing entry node all the time means that if there were a bad guard and exit pair trying to deanonymise users, you'd be far more likely to be deanonymised just by chance, and vulnerable to an attack … where the exit forces you to be deanonymised by making you pick its evil guard. …
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Currently, how many entry guards does Tor choose and for how long are they maintained?
From what I can see from reading the code, it picks one guard if NumEntryGuards is not defined in the consensus. It is currently defined in the consensus but it is also set to one guard. … That guard is kept, by default, for 2 months (there is some random variance since it obscures the time the guard was initially picked), if GuardLifetime were defined in the consensus this would be the …
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Will the network know if a malicious guard keeps dropping connections?
Do Tor authority servers, or probing servers, or those clients who were dropped by the malicious guard have any mechanism to report it to the authority servers so that the malicious guard will be rejected …
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What's wrong with my relay? (Consensus Weight Jumping Around)
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And if we look at the descriptor of the relay, it shows:
r grumpytechie1 TKZOZ37P8jsTjP5wpqAulL3zqAU 1z/zwwjEv98DFWqRnF2vt4BnYL0 2018-02-27 18:03:15 185.103.110.248 9001 9030
s Fast Guard …
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Question about the assigned Guard node flag and whether if this flagged node can still be us...
So you will potentially act to some users as a guard and others as an intermediary (not always just the "middle") and possibly an exit to others (if you have a policy that allows it). …