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Issue created Mar 12, 2017 by Trac@tracbot

Possible error in the Tor manual (section "NumEntryGuards NUM")

In both, the Tor -stable Manual and the Tor -alpha Manual, there is a possible error in the section "NumEntryGuards NUM".

Literally, this is the description of the "NumEntryGuards NUM" option: "If UseEntryGuards is set to 1, we will try to pick a total of NUM routers as long-term entries for our circuits. If NUM is 0, we try to learn the number from the NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and default to 3 if the consensus parameter isn’t set. (Default: 0)".

But I think the correct description would be: "If UseEntryGuards is set to 1, we will try to pick a total of NUM routers as long-term entries for our circuits. If NUM is 0, we try to learn the number from the NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and default to 1 if the consensus parameter isn’t set. (Default: 0)". Because Tor currently chooses a single entry guard, does not choose three.

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