Tor path lengths too short when "Vanguards lite" configured

Description When building anonymizing circuits to or from an onion service with 'lite' vanguards the default enabled, the circuit manager code would build the circuits with one hop too few. Impact This makes users of this code more vulnerable to some kinds of traffic analysis when they run or vis...

Tor path lengths too short when "full Vanguards" configured

Description When building anonymizing circuits to or from an onion service with full vanguards enabled, the circuit manager code would build the circuits with one hop too few. Impact This makes users of this code more vulnerable to some kinds of traffic analysis when they run or visit onion...

Tor Browser 4.5 - Everything you Need to Safely Browse the Internet

The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical...