Questions tagged [guard-node]
A guard node is the entry node into the Tor network.
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Self-hosting an bridge at home and using it for your own traffic?
If selecting a trusted entry (guard) node is crucial, why not self-host a bridge at home? Is it important to use 3 external relays or can one relay be selfhosted at your origin address leaving only ...
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Can't specify any guard nodes in torrc file
I am trying to do some research for my school thesis related to the Tor network, and I need to specify and use only one guard relay that I own while using the Tor browser. I tried to specify it with ...
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Public network safe with TOR?
As I know, public networks are highly dangerous for normal people as hacker can obtain their private data. One way to prevent this is using a VPN, since after the connection everything is encrypted.
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Gap - Counting number of packages to determine client?
I read a lot about onion routing and I am confused about the following fact on Wikipedia:
Only the final node, the "exit node", is able to determine its own location in the chain.
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guard node unexpected change, is it expected behavior?
my guard node is changing between two countries in different sites is it normal ?
also, when i open tor my guard node is always the same, but some time passed it changes to another country but if i ...
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Tor comunicating to other IPs beside my guard node, should it happen?
Running netstat and analyzing my established connections I noticed sometimes tor talks to other IPs that aren't my guard node. I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen because I very very new to ...
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Who can determine the guard-node of a hidden-service?
If someone hosts a hidden-service, then the hidden-service obviously knows its guard-node. I would guess the guard-node knows that it is the guard-node of the tor-application which is used by the ...
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Why do I get connected to TOR nodes that I excluded in TORRC?
I'm testing the TOR browser bundle and I keep getting connected to exit nodes in countries that I've explicitly excluded in my torrc:
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ExcludeExitNodes {ad},{ar},{au},{at},{bs},{by},{be},...
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Could I avoid traffic confirmation attacks by setting up my own guard node?
If I set up my own guard node and always use it when connecting through the Tor network, would I be fully protected from confirmation attacks?
Also, how would my anonymity be affected with such a ...
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What does the middle node of my Tor circuit know about my guard node?
Can the middle node of my Tor circuit detect if I am using a bridge and/or pluggable transport?
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What percentage/ratio of entry nodes reside in 14 Eyes or NATO affiliated countries?
I spent a good amount of time editing my Tor configuration files to switch in between entry nodes and found that eventually after excluding all nodes, I was lastly routed through Kyrgyzstan. I only ...
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Advertised bandwidth rising but consensus weight falling?
I am a new non-exit relay operator, currently running TOR v4.5.4 rc on a RaspberryPi 3B+, on a FTTH connection.
My relay is https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/...
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Not possible to connect some countries
I was running Tor-0.2.9.9 till yestoday, thene I updated to the new version Tor-0.4.5.5-rc now i cannot connect to Japan or India anymore and also to some other countries. In version Tor-0.2.9.9 it ...
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guard node IP is european (FR or DE)
Why is my guard french or german if my IP is from Singapore? I downloaded the Tor installation file from Singapore but my guard is still french.
Why is it like this? I suppose to get asian circuit.
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tor log shows ignoring ExcludeNodes?
Tor Log says:
[WARN] Not using bridge at [scrubbed]: it is in ExcludeNodes.
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[NOTICE] Opened Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9150
It minds that my tor, conexion/router have been hacked?
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