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Nick Mathewson
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@@ -1021,10 +1021,22 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if
increases the odds that an adversary who owns some servers will observe a
fraction of your paths. (Default: 1)
**UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards** **0**|**1**::
If this option is set to 1, we try to use our entry guards as directory
guards, and failing that, pick more nodes to act as our directory guards.
This helps prevent an adversary from enumerating clients. It's only
available for clients (non-relay, non-bridge) that aren't configured to
download any non-default directory material. It doesn't currently
do anything when we lack a live consensus. (Default: 1)
**NumEntryGuards** __NUM__::
If UseEntryGuards is set to 1, we will try to pick a total of NUM routers
as long-term entries for our circuits. (Default: 3)
**NumDirectoryGuards** __NUM__::
If UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards is enabled, we try to make sure we
have at least NUM routers to use as directory guards. (Default: 3)
**SafeSocks** **0**|**1**::
When this option is enabled, Tor will reject application connections that
use unsafe variants of the socks protocol -- ones that only provide an IP