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can TOR be considered to be on the transport layer though? i thought it worked with TCP, so it would need to be at least OSI level 5 iirc?
by y4mi 10y ago
can TOR be considered to be on the transport layer though? i thought it worked with TCP, so it would need to be at least OSI level 5 iirc?
- lrem 10y agoOSI level is cute, especially once you start to interpret ip over https ;)
- duozerk 10y ago> so it would need to be at least OSI level 5 iirc You're right; actually tor reside in the application layer I think (above TLS). Although conceptually speaking it is itself a transport layer I guess.
- brobinson 10y agoTor is a layer 4 overlay network. Layer 5 would be HTTP, layer 6 would be the content (JPEG, MP4, etc.), and layer 7 would be the application serving or sending the HTTP requests/content.