Box for simple Tor node.

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On 10/13/19, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> arbitrarily-long hops (256 hops?  65,536 hops?
> An even larger power-of-2 hops?)

Hops, alone, don't add much protection beyond
a good routing of 3 to 9 or so. They're more for fucking
with traditional jurisdictional log reconstruction trails,
than dealing with GPA's, GT-1's and GAA'a including Sybil
that can just follow traffic patterns across the mesh bisecting
in real time, or more generally... sort and match traffic patterns
between all sets of two edge hosts.

If applied together with other tech, especially
regarding nets where you want any kind of
useable stream (even delivery of storage or msgs
is in a way a stream), beyond those hops is going to get
really unperformant, and less security return than thought.

You can demo today by recompile Tor and Phantom and tweak I2P,
to set arbitrary hop levels beyond single digits... are you more
secure from G* as result... probably not.