2. Presentationby Hamza
What is Tor Browser?
The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a
distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it
prevents somebodywatching your Internet connection from learning what
sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical
location, and it lets you.
History of Tor
Tor is based on the principle of ‘onion routing’ which was developed by Paul Syverson,
Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag at the United States Naval Research
Laboratory in the 1990’s. The alpha version of Tor, named ‘The Onion Routing Project’
or simply TOR Project, was developed by Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson. It was
launched on September 20, 2002. Further development was carried under the financial
roof of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
The Tor Project Inc. is a non-profit organization that currently maintains Tor and is
responsible for its development. The United States Government mainly funds it, and
further aid is provided by Swedish Government and different NGOs & individual
sponsors.
How Tor Works?
Tor works on the concept of ‘onion routing’ method in which the user data is first
encrypted and then transferred through different relays present in the Tor network, thus
creating a multi-layered encryption (layers like an onion), thereby keeping the identity of
the user safe. One encryption layer is decrypted at each successive Tor relay, and the
remaining data is forwarded to any random relay until it reaches its destination server.
6. Presentationby Hamza
Is having Tor illegal?
Just using Tor to browse the Internet is not illegal. The download is free,
and hiding your IP address and browsing history is not in and of
itself, illegal. However, many of those that use Tor use it specificallyfor
anonymity because they are doing something illegal.
Is it safe to use Tor Browser?
Tor itself is perfectly safe, it is an anonymity network but it also does have
it's own Firefoxbased browser bundle that lets you download it and set it
up in a simple way.Tor is a safe download but check the sha hashes and
such, make sure it is the download the tor website actually meant you to
get.
Is the Tor browser a VPN?
Unlike VPN, where the VPN providerknows your real IP address,and can
see your internet traffic at the exit point (the VPN server), with Tor your
signal is routed through a number of nodes,each of which is only aware of
the IP addresses'in front' of the node and 'behind' it.
Why is the Tor browser so slow?
There are many reasons why the Tor network is currently slow.we should
realize that Tor is never going to be blazing fast. Your traffic is bouncing
through volunteers' computers in various parts of the world, and some
bottlenecks and network latency will always be present.