Thursday, 11. August 2016

Tor can be cracked “like eggshells”, warns US judge


A US judge has put into the public record, during a hearing in Tacoma, Washington, an interesting pair of comments about Tor.

Tor, of course, is the so-called onion router network, originally designed by the US Navy as a technique for using the public internet in an anonymous way.

End-to-end encryption, such as you get when you point your browser at an HTTPS site like Naked Security, is good for confidentiality: eavesdroppers can’t keep track of which pages you’re most interested in, or sneakily sniff out your email address when you publish a comment.

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