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Topics

  • Introduction

  • Security

  • How Tor works

  • Using and sharing

  • Alternate Designs

  • Onion Services

Topics

  • Introduction

  • Security

  • How Tor works

  • Using and sharing

  • Alternate Designs

  • Onion Services

About Tor

This section explains Tor's design choices, security protections, entry guards, key management, and how Tor differs from other proxies.

Introduction

  • What is Tor?
  • Why is it called Tor?
  • What protections does Tor provide?
  • How is Tor different from other proxies?
  • Funding the Tor Project

Security

  • What attacks remain against onion routing?
  • Is there a backdoor in Tor?
  • HTTPS encryption and Tor

How Tor works

  • Overview
  • What are Entry Guards?
  • Tor path selection
  • Tor cryptographic keys

Using and sharing

  • Distributing Tor
  • Using Tor
  • Tor with Torrent
  • Changing the number of Tor hops
  • Sharing files with OnionShare
  • Does Tor Project keep logs?
  • About our services

Alternate Designs

  • You should make every Tor user be a relay
  • You should transport all IP packets, not just TCP packets
  • Exit policies should be able to block websites, not just IP addresses
  • You should let the network pick the path, not the client.
  • You should hide the list of Tor relays, so people can't block the exits.

Onion Services

  • What are .onion sites and onion services?
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