People are using TOR client browser to browse the Internet anonymously. Few days earlier there has been a report that NSA and other spy agencies can view the TOR users who are surfing the Internet. Recently TOR has developed a new client for anonymous browsing in an effective way.
TOR uses the concept of The Onion Routing technique in which the IP address of the sender has been masked and only the request has been made and the request passes through a number of volunteer nodes which is more than 6000 nodes globally.
Recently TOR has been facing many network attack which reveals the identity of the users. One such attack is that TIMING Attack in which taking control of the entry and the exit node information can be used to analyse the user browsing.
Another such attack is the Asymmetric Correlation Attack on TOR and according to the researchers many nodes are vulnerable to the networks which is more than 58%.
Due to this increase researchers has developed a new TOR client in the name of #Astoria which has more anonymous feature and it minimizes the vulnerable nodes from 58% to 5.8%.
#Astoria client uses the algorithm that will first analyse the route between the entry and exit node and if any vulnerable node has been identified will be discarded and then safe route has been selected and then transmission of data takes place.
The client is not still made public for download and it is believed that it will be effective in both anonymous and in secure transmission than the TOR client browser that exists now.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to be misused.
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