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@@ -1592,6 +1592,14 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if
which means that nodes specified in ExcludeNodes will not be
picked.
+
+ When either this option or HSLayer3Nodes are set, the /16 subnet
+ and node family restrictions are removed for hidden service
+ circuits. Additionally, we allow the guard node to be present
+ as the Rend, HSDir, and IP node, and as the hop before it. This
+ is done to prevent the adversary from inferring information
+ about our guard, layer2, and layer3 node choices at later points
+ in the path.
+ +
This option is meant to be managed by a Tor controller such as
https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards that selects and
updates this set of nodes for you. Hence it does not do load
@@ -1637,6 +1645,14 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if
ExcludeNodes have higher priority than HSLayer3Nodes,
which means that nodes specified in ExcludeNodes will not be
picked.
+ +
+ When either this option or HSLayer2Nodes are set, the /16 subnet
+ and node family restrictions are removed for hidden service
+ circuits. Additionally, we allow the guard node to be present
+ as the Rend, HSDir, and IP node, and as the hop before it. This
+ is done to prevent the adversary from inferring information
+ about our guard, layer2, and layer3 node choices at later points
+ in the path.
+
This option is meant to be managed by a Tor controller such as
https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards that selects and