Although current security measures are deemed “good enough” by most users, Tor has been created to go farther for users who want to get as anonymous and safe as possible. There are prying eyes on you ranging from Governments, local Internet Service Providers (ISP), or even hackers out there trying to get a piece of your information. Reach your destination only when the last encrypted layer is removed.The Internet is not always a secure place for exchanging information. Each layer of the onion in Tor browsing is pulled off and discarded leaving no trace of where it came from or where it was going to. Because the routing of the communication was partly concealed at every hop in the Tor circuit, this method eliminates any single point at which the communicating peers can be determined through network surveillance that relies upon knowing its source and destination. The final relay decrypts the innermost layer of encryption and sends the original data to its destination without revealing or knowing the source IP address. Each relay decrypts a layer of encryption to reveal the next relay in the circuit to pass the remaining encrypted data on to it. Tor encrypts the data, including the next node destination IP address, multiple times and sends it through a virtual circuit comprising successive, random-selection Tor relays. Onion routing is implemented by encryption in the application layer of a communication protocol stack, nested like the layers of an onion. The Wikipedia article explains it like this: Tor hides user identities through a series of “ encrypted tunnels” which conceal the next “ relay” and the previous “ relay” from anyone observing the traffic. Tor is now an open source, multi-platform browser that is available to the public. Tor was originally developed by the United States Navy to protect confidential U.S. The Tor Browser is used for legitimate reasons by law enforcement officials, reporters, activists, whistle blowers and ordinary security-conscious individuals to protect their anonymity.
The Tor Browser is a web browser designed for anonymous web browsing and protection against traffic capture, providing some level of privacy protection for individuals who us it.
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