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by stock_toaster 2321 days ago
Interesting. Looking for more info on what you were talking about (with regard to "guards"), I dug up this post[1] which has some info too.

[1]: https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-vanguards-add-onion-s...

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This is probably the best description of how Tor uses guards: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/guard-spec.tx....
The page you link describes "vanguards" which apply the guard logic to positions beyond the first hop. They are only available as a plug-in that you must separately download and configure. My understanding is that no plans currently exist to integrate vanguards into Tor due to cost of engineering challenges that appear if everybody were to use them (including especially how they would affect load balancing).
Thanks for the follow up info and additional explanation!