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The Tor project

The Tor project

Overview on how Tor network works

saracubillas

November 27, 2015
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  1. What is Tor? • Open source project • Sponsored by

    a range of orgs including • US Govt! • Decentralised low latency mix network • Dark net • Onion routing
  2. References • Tor Overview: https://www.torproject.org/about/ overview.html.en • Exonerator: https://exonerator.torproject.org/ •

    Tor Software & Services: https://www.torproject.org/ projects/projects.html.en • Tor Hidden Services Protocol: https://www.torproject.org/ docs/hidden-services.html.en • Electronic Frontier Fundation, Tor and Https: https:// www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https
  3. Is Tor browser slow? why? What you are using is

    massive set of proxies so you get slowed down by everybody else's internet connections.
  4. If you are using Tor browser is your connection completely

    secure? ! • Data is Encrypted between your computer and the first Relay. Key Loggers, and other malware can intercept/ transmit your data as you use your system and it will not be protected by TOR. • Between the last relay and the destination de data is not encrypted.
  5. What can happen if you run an exit relay? Anything

    the user does on the Internet through your essentially for your relay appears to come from your IP address. So if somebody publish something about terrorist money the FBI will see that the IP belongs to you