[tor-talk] Extend auto-IP-switching-time in TorBrowser (and depending from time of inactivity)

[Kristoffer Rath Hansen]

Why? Tor automatically chooses a pool of entry guards for 4 or 8 weeks, and
every 10 minutes a new path is made through the network as far as I know.

And doing it in this way is one of the reasons it is more safe to use tor.
Because even if someone have set up an exit node and that exit node watches
the traffic, he can't really use it for anything because he only gets some
of the packets from that browsing session meaning that he might see
something, but at most 10 minutes worth of activity.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016, 11:21 Ben Stover <bxstover at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> As far as I know TorBrowser switches automatically every 10 minutes the
> node chain resp. the IP of the ExitNode.
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> Can I somehow extend this timeout time to another value e.g. 30 minutes?
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> Or (even better) can I let Tor auto-switch the IP and chain depending from
> the time of inactivity (.e.g when 15 minutes no
> web page is called)?
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> Thank you
> Ben
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