A group of researchers claim they have created a better, faster alternative to the Tor network, Ars Technica reports. In a newly published paper, researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the University College of London describe an anonymizing network called HORNET (High-speed Onion Routing at the NETwork layer), saying it could be part of the next generation of Tor. The researchers state HORNET moves anonymized data at 93 gigabits per second and can be scaled to handle large quantities of users. Though the researchers said the system couldn’t fully protect against targeted attacks, widespread use could stymy mass surveillance, they claim.
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