How TOR Hides You - Onion Routing, Circuits and Hidden Services : Down The Rabbit Hole Part 3
In the second part of this series we covered the core idea behind TOR, why privacy was never built in and why VPNs can be a bad opsec (operational security) choice, while walking through some real world case studies. If you haven’t read the last part I would recommend starting there before diving into this one.
Now that we understand why TOR exists and why it’s the best shot at anonymity on the internet, it’s time to understand how it actually achieves that.
In this part we go behind the scenes into the TOR architecture and break down why TOR is the best option we have for anonymity today.
Dissecting TOR: The Architecture
To understand the architecture we need to start by dissecting the name itself. Onion and Router, the two main pillars upon which TOR was built.
TOR as a Router
Let’s revisit the basic example where Alice visited...
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