Tor to Use Never-Before-Seen Distributed RNG to Generate Truly Random Numbers

  • 25 May 2016
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Devs test new Tor RNG algorithm at last week's meeting

 
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May 25, 2016 08:45 GMT  ·  By Catalin Cimpanu  Tor developers have been working on the next iteration of the Tor network and its underbelly, the Onion routing protocol, in order to create a stronger, harder-to-crack anonymous communications system.
 
To advance the project, the developer team schedules brainstorming and planning meetings at regular intervals. The most recent of these meetings took place last week, in Montreal, Canada.
 
In this session, the team tested the next generation of the Tor network working on top of a revamped Onion protocol.
 
Future Tor communications will be more secure 
The team says it implemented a new mechanism for generating random numbers, never before seen on the Internet.
 
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With the problems Tor has recently had, they need to tighten up their security and improve their privacy.
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Not a fan of Tor given the security implications of the wrong type of person using the network/facility for the wrong sort of browsing, etc. :(

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