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So this is like Tor but for mobile phones? Very interesting.

• moxie 14y ago
  Tor is like Tor for mobile phones (checkout Orbot). =) These applications have more emphasis on confidentiality than on anonymity. The type of "onion routing" that Tor employs for anonymity is very difficult/impossible to pull off for applications which require extremely low latency connections, such as a realtime voice application.
• jahmed 14y ago
  Not really. This still has a central server.
• drivebyacct2 14y ago
  Moxie's point is important, but one that is more important is the difference between anonymization and encryption. If your connection is not encrypted, it may be possible to determine who you are, but something being encrypted doesn't by nature mean that the users are unknown. In this case, they know each other and communicate encrypted. In Tor's onion routing, the server and user don't "know" each other and they communicate via an encrypted channel. Thus, if someone listens to your tor connection, they still can't see your data [and/or guess at your identity].
  • moxie 14y ago
    I don't think it's worth emphasizing the confidentiality aspects of Tor's "link layer" protocol, given that users really shouldn't conceptualize Tor as something which provides confidentiality for their traffic. Or as the Tor project says, plaintext over Tor is still plaintext: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/plaintext-over-tor-still-plaintext https://blog.torproject.org/blog/plaintext-over-tor-still-pl...