The idea is similar to using a twisty, hard-to-follow route in order to throw off somebody who is tailing you - and then periodically erasing your footprints. TOR helps to reduce the risks of both simple and sophisticated traffic analysis by distributing your transactions over several places on the Internet, so no single point can link you to your destination. ThatвЂ™s the only price for security and itвЂ™s fair enough. While you can expect upwards of 95% of your internet speed while using a VPN, with TOR itвЂ™s more like 80% (My best guess). Unlike proxies and VPNs, TORвЂ™s connection goes through several random systems which is the main reason for itвЂ™s superiority. (Obviously, the last relay sends the data to our destination, but since itвЂ™s randomly assigned to us, anyone monitoring it will only get seemingly random and hence useless information). Nobody ever directly handles your data, it just gets passed along since nobody knows where it is coming from or where it is headed. Since the network is randomly set up (and it changes every few minutes), you get a dummy IP address that has absolutely zero connection with you. Not a single point in the chain knows where the message is coming from or where it is going. Now, each client is sent the information about which next client it has to pass on the information to. It finds other relays, other computers on which a TOR relay is running, finds a few of these (around 10) and forms a circuit (a network through which our data packet goes through). The relay client, on starting up, configures your connection with the outside world. Clearly, the treasure is your destination website, or any internet service.Now, TOR comes with a relay client and a browser (bundled together for convenience).

The clues are вЂњrelaysвЂќ or checkpoints, each point knows where youвЂ™re coming from, and where youвЂ™re going. Breaking down the metaphor, the person travelling from clue to clue is your data packet вЂ“ what you use to communicate to websites.

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