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348 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 12 Dec 25 12:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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shevy-java ◴[12 Dec 25 13:02 UTC] No.46243731[source]▶

Hmmmm.

My biggest gripe with the Tor project is that it is so slow.

I don't think merely moving to Rust makes Tor faster either. And I am also not entirely convinced that Rust is really better than C.

rpigab ◴[12 Dec 25 13:17 UTC] No.46243847[source]▶

I had that problem too, very slow on network requests, just change the setting "num_relays_proxied" from 3 to 1 to make it blazingly fast.

willvarfar ◴[12 Dec 25 13:23 UTC] No.46243879[source]▶

Then the single relay knows both who you are (your IP) and where you are going. This offers no anonymity against the relay itself.

3 relays is the goldilocks number for speed vs privacy. Using less is not a tradeoff the usual user of Tor should make.

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1313ed01 ◴[12 Dec 25 13:25 UTC] No.46243909[source]▶

How is 3 so much better than 2, but 4 not so much better than 3?

1. sph ◴[12 Dec 25 14:06 UTC] No.46244260{4}[source]▶

The law of diminishing returns

The Tor Project is switching to Rust