HORNET – Faster and Secure Anonymity Network Than Tor
Most of you must have heard about Tor, which is one of the renowned network based on onion router, delivers a good amount of anonymity and has become one of the popular software for everyday Internet users, activists and journalists who struggle to avoid restriction imposed by the corporate and government sectors.
But what’s missing in this well-known onion routing is the slow Internet connection speed. Due to the multifarious encryption technique, the Web browsing experience gets affected very badly. It means this tool becomes impractical for those users who are trying to move large amounts data.
Now meet HORNET, an anticipated high-speed onion routing based anonymizing network architecture which promises that it could be significantly faster, can be integrated on routers and will work as a part of the Internet.
