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The security of the Tor network, including its limitations and the methods used to harden it against attacks.
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 can and does materially reduce many forms of government surveillance—especially local network monitoring and simple traffic analysis—by routing and encrypting traffic through volunteer relays, but...
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...