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Subject: [tor-talk] Circuits in Orbot
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Hello!

I am using Orbot for Android and was surprised to see that circuits are up to 5 nodes. I remember having read that TOR would not be more secure (and even could be UNsecure) if it would use more than 3 nodes to build a circuit.

Any explanation?
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