Fanis on Nostr: I think heuristics on path length are quite strong: a route longer than 5 nodes is ...
I think heuristics on path length are quite strong: a route longer than 5 nodes is improbable enough that the attacker can assert that "Bob is more likely than not the sender". But yeah, it's heuristics, so the attacker can't know for sure.
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