On 6/26/18 10:16, dave levi wrote:
I'm testing few things in Tor and I noticed that if im changing(from the source code) the number of hop's(nodes) to be more then 3 hop's it work's fine(slowly, but still working) and if im sting only 2 hop's its still works great. but, when i'm setting only 1 hop, i can open the Tor-browser but i can't use it(Tor-browser) to visit site(regular site or onion site too). so im thinking maybe the Tor-network have protected from users who are using 1 hop?
Yes.
Even before the DoS mitigation stuff, relays wouldn't allow themselves to be used as the only hop in a circuit. Apparently this affects onion service circuits too.
If you want a single-hop proxy, then you don't want Tor.
Matt