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The security and anonymity features of the Tor network, including its use of onion routing, encryption, and relay systems to protect user identity and data.
Using the Tor network itself is legal in the United States, but accessing, downloading, or participating in illegal content or services over Tor can expose a user to criminal liability just as those s...
Tor uses “onion routing”: the Tor client builds a short chain of volunteer-run relays (typically three), negotiates ephemeral keys with each, and wraps the user’s data in multiple nested layers of enc...
Tor exit nodes are the network hops that bridge onion-routed traffic to the open internet and therefore can observe any unencrypted traffic leaving the Tor network; documented incidents show exit oper...