XPost: alt.privacy.anon-server, sci.crypt   
   From: stefan@mailchuck.com   
      
   Gabx wrote:   
      
   > You postin' circuit logs from OM doesn't prove the app's stretchin' the path.   
   > It just shows the info OM wants to display.   
   > That's still all internal - no external verification.   
   > You might as well write "trust me bro" at the bottom.   
      
   Well, I asked the Tor community. Tor allows settings for more than   
   3 hops. It is defined in the source code in src/core/or/or.h   
      
   /** How many hops does a general-purpose circuit have by default? */   
   #define DEFAULT_ROUTE_LEN 3   
      
   Out of curiousity I will try to compile Tor with more hops and will   
   look later how it performs with pluto and smtpdump, because of timeouts   
   and latency, which already happens with standard 3 hops, but pluto handles   
   this already well, with smtpdump, due to retries.   
      
   If everything works well, during testing later, I may offer the latest   
   tor compiled with more hops, if the community likes to have an up-to-date   
   tor/tor.exe.   
      
   Regards   
   Stefan   
      
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