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

For a given connection through the Tor network, the guard node is the first hop in that path. It is the server that directly sees the user connecting. See the wiki description for for more information.

This category is for questions specific to guard relays. General relay questions should be tagged with instead.