More than 3 hops can harm anonymity (FAQ).
Matt Pagan

Matt Pagan commited on 2014-07-12 03:16:53
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  We don't want to encourage people to use paths longer than this -- it
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  increases load on the network without (as far as we can tell) providing
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- any more security. Remember that <a
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- href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/tor/trunk/doc/design-paper/tor-design.html#subsec:threat-model">
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+ any more security. In fact, using paths longer than 3 could harm anonymity 
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+ ("Oh, there's that person who changed her path length again"). Remember that 
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+<a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/tor/trunk/doc/design-paper/tor-design.html#subsec:threat-model">
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  the best way to attack Tor is to attack the endpoints and ignore the middle
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- of the path
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-</a>.
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+ of the path</a>.
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 </p>
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  And we don't want to encourage people to use paths of length 1 either.
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