Astoria, the Tor client designed to beat the NSA surveillance by Pierluigi Paganini.
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A team of security researchers announced to have developed Astoria, a new Tor client designed to beat the NSA and reduce the efficiency of timing attacks.
Tor and Deep web are becoming terms even popular among Internet users, the use of anonymizing network is constantly increasing for this reason intelligence agencies are focusing their efforts in its monitoring.
Edward Snowden has revealed that intelligence agencies belonging to the Five Eyes Alliance have tried to exploit several techniques to de-anonymized Tor users.
Today I desire to introduce you the result of the work of a joint effort of security researchers from American and Israeli organizations which have developed a new advanced Tor client called Astoria.
The Astoria Tor Client was specially designed to protect Tor user form surveillance activities, it implements a series of features that make eavesdropping harder.
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