[tor-relays] how long till the axe falls on little guard relays?

[George Kadianakis]

Kali Tor <kalitor42 at yahoo.com> writes:

> I wonder why there is a sudden decrease in number of Guard nodes?
>
> -kali-
>

Because of the guard security changes that are currently being
conducted, and specifically this section of proposal 236:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/38e1ccdecac69be6651fc6d0ffb0b7c0f68ae3ed:/proposals/236-single-guard-node.txt#l145

Please read this paper for more information:
https://www.petsymposium.org/2014/papers/Dingledine.pdf

>
>> On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 5:40 PM, "Sebastian G. <bastik.tor>" <bastik.tor at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > 20.08.2014, 19:23 Nusenu:
>>>  its done
>>> 
>>>  https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#relayflags
>>> 
>> 
>> and by the looks of it, it didn't have much impact on the bandwidth
>> 
>> https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html#bwhist-flags
>> 
>> https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html#bandwidth-flags
>> 

Yes, it seems so. You can read some analysis on this here:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-March/006458.html