The third relay, the “ exit relay”, is the last node before the traffic passes through to its destination. These relays announce their presence to the rest of the network, allowing other TOR users to connect with them and ensuring that the initiator of the relay is not implicated or identified. The first two relays receive and pass the traffic onto the other relay, adding to the speed and robustness of the network. The more TOR relays that are online, the faster, more robust and more secure the entire TOR network will be.įor ensuring security protocol is met, all TOR traffic is relayed through three relays or nodes: TOR comprises of two parts: the software that the user downloads to use the Internet without leaving traces and the network of volunteer computers which comprise the pathways for the software to engage and allows your IP address to remain hidden.
TOR protects the basic users’ right to freedom and allows them to carry out their confidential projects without being monitored.Īll forms of Internet communication, ranging from visits to websites to instant messaging could be easily concealed such that it becomes difficult to trace them back the user. This masking is achieved with the assistance of more than seven thousand relays that direct Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network. The TOR Project allows any user to mask their location and data usage from being tracked through traffic analysis or network surveillance. TOR is an acronym derived from the software project ‘ The Onion Network’, an anonymity network capable of enabling anonymous communication.
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