EXPERIMENTAL: Reduce Tor Circuits Created Client Side from 3 Hops to 2 Hops

[reece394]

DANGER: This commit compromises the security of Tor by completely eliminating the Middle Tor Nodes. It is not recommended to use this without a VPN or another form of anonymisation.

This commit modifies the source code of Tor to reduce the nodes used when creating the circuits from 3 to 2. Unfortunately attempting to reduce this to 1 did not work as most Tor nodes completely reject traffic using Single Node traffic.

Notably when applying the patch the download speed is more stable in comparison to using 3 nodes but please feel free to test this and give feedback before merging.

Note .onion sites typically use a total of 6 hops - 3 client and 3 server. With this commit it reduces it to 5 hops due to 2 client and 3 server.

[sn0b4ll]

Hey @reece394, many thanks for the PR and your ongoing development on the project.

I will look into it, but I think a config switch (e.g. env-var in docker-compose) for this option would be good since the typical user using this tool without reading the doc would assume Tor is still protecting their privacy.