Apakah saya dapat mengubah jumlah hop yang digunakan Tor?
Sirkuit Tor secara default menggunakan tiga relé. Artikel ini menjelaskan mengapa panjang jalur tetap dan mengapa memperpanjangnya tidak meningkatkan keamanan.
Right now the path length is hard-coded at three (except if you're accessing an onion service).
Mengapa tidak lebih panjang?
Kami tidak ingin mendorong orang untuk menggunakan path lebih panjang dari ini karena akan meningkatkan beban jaringan (sejauh yang kami ketahui) tanpa menambah keamanan.
Also, using paths longer than three could harm anonymity, first because it makes denial of security attacks easier, and second because it could act as an identifier if only a small number of users have the same path length as you.
Mengapa tidak lebih pendek?
If we made two-hop paths, then a relay on either end of the circuit would know which relay it needs to attack (whether break into, collaborate with, or maybe just surveil) in order to identify the user.
Whereas with three-hop paths, a relay on one end doesn't immediately know which relay they would need to attack, increasing the cost, effort, and uncertainty of an attack.