Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options answers only not deleted user 12737

Guard relays are the first hop of any circuit through Tor. This category is for guard specific questions.

0 votes

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. …
cacahuatl's user avatar
  • 11k
1 vote
Accepted

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 …
cacahuatl's user avatar
  • 11k
2 votes
Accepted

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 …
cacahuatl's user avatar
  • 11k
0 votes
Accepted

What's wrong with my relay? (Consensus Weight Jumping Around)

Weight 7858 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
cacahuatl's user avatar
  • 11k
1 vote

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). …
cacahuatl's user avatar
  • 11k