On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 at 19:21, Roger Dingledine wrote: > Sounds like you are thinking that the last hop in the circuit is called > the exit node, and earlier hops in the circuit are called bridges? This > is not so. > > The last hop in the circuit is the exit relay. Hops other than the last > are called non-exit relays. The first hop is called the entry relay or > entry guard. > > Bridges are unlisted entry relays. They replace the first hop (which > ordinarily would be in the public list of relays and thus easy to find > and block) with one that the user has found through some other process > and explicitly configured. >
Understood now. Thanks for clearing this up for me. Christian. -- BOFH excuse #136: Daemons loose in system. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
