Beginner's Guide to Tor
The Basics Tor, an acronym for “The Onion Router”, its an implementation of the Onion Routing, and is a free and open-sourced project that provides enhanced anomization. Developed in mid 90s, us naval research, it bounces around connection between different routers so it is much harder to track. Tor in its implementation uses three hops or nodes or routers and multiple layers of encryption to bounce around connections, the last node which is also called a exit relay is usually the one which visits the website/service requested, you can think of it like a proxy with much more anonymity as the exit relay only knows the service that is requested not the actual person requesting the service....