hi starlight to your text > it seems that middle relays have a weight equal to guard relays when guard > selection occurs [...] > ... understand the purpose
there are several possible answers for such a purpose https://blog.torproject.org/blog/improving-tors-anonymity-changing-guard-parameters Improving Tor's anonymity by changing guard parameters https://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=1545 On the Effectiveness of Traffic Analysis Against Anonymity Networks Using Flow Records to your subject https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/plain/path-spec.txt " For all circuits, we weight node selection according to router bandwidth." if a node's weight is zero there might be not enough router bandwidth for (another) Tor user you don't want to be the only Tor user who isn't squeezed out of this circuit and have to remain for a deanonymization attack -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
