Tails - only one hop

hello

the last two days i recognized that just after starting tails the first connections only show one hop on the network map. Some time ago i have had connections showing me 2 hops in stead of three. But this time it is one hop only. Restarting tails using a new ip shows the same result - one hop is used for the first connections. Later at the same day everything is back to normal and every connection uses 3 hops as usually. Is it some kind of a bug and the other two hops are just not shown or does tor sometimes really only use one hop and what the network map tells me is always correct ?

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Quoting Top changes in Tor since the 2004 design paper (Part 1) :

Tunneling directory connections over Tor

In 0.1.2.5-alpha (Jan 2007), we added support by default for clients to download all directory documents over HTTP over Tor, rather than by contacting directories and caches over unencrypted HTTP. This change helps clients resist fingerprinting.

Because clients aren't using Tor for anonymity on directory connections, they build single-hop circuits. We use HTTP over a one hop Tor circuit, rather than plain old HTTPS, so that clients can use the same TLS connection both for a directory fetch and for other Tor traffic.

Comment by Tails — Mon 15 Oct 2012 03:44:22 PM CEST

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