Anonymity Loves Resilience: The Case of Tor

Tor is an anonymity network consisting of relays run by thousands of volunteers worldwide aiming to give back privacy on the Internet. The network carries around 350 Gbit/s of traffic and helps between 2,000,000 and 8,000,000 users daily. In this talk, we will explain how different design decisions make Tor resilient against authoritarian and other threats and the associated challenges.

The topics we will cover include the open and transparent way we develop Tor, as a free software project, the distributed trust embodied in Tor’s design, the decentralized relay operator community powering the Tor network, and how funding works at the Tor Project.