A method for anonymous communications over a wide area network such as the Internet. Onion routing hides the names of the parties that are communicating as well as the data by encrypting the payload ...

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Computer programmers are modifying a communications system, originally developed by the U.S. Naval Research Lab, to help Internet users surf the Web anonymously and shield their online activities from ...

Tor, the world’s largest and most well-known “onion router” network, offers a degree of anonymity that has made it a popular tool of journalists, dissidents, and everyday Internet users who are trying ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Tor is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication by directing Internet traffic through a ...

We explain probably the largest ever win in the war against child porn, and the potential unexpected knock-on effects on legitimate users of the Deep Web. Originally (but no longer) an acronym for The ...

Researchers in the U.S. say they’ve successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it harder to trace Internet surfers and the Web sites they are viewing. The researchers ...

Onions may be the secret ingredient in protecting the Pentagon's classified information. During an afternoon presentation at the Usenix Security conference on Thursday, a researcher at the U.S. Naval ...

Tor is the household name in anonymous networks but the system has vulnerabilities, especially when it comes to an attacker finding out who is sending and receiving messages. Researchers at MIT and ...