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@ Dikaios1517
2025-04-23 03:14:21
It's kind of the opposite of peer-to-peer, actually. It's called onion routing because your connection from origin to destination and back is routed through multiple hops along the way, and each hop only knows where the request came from, and where it is going next, but doesn't know if either are the original origin or destination, or just another hop in the chain. Peer-to-peer would be where the origin and destination communicate with one another directly, with no servers in-between.
Each has different privacy tradeoffs.
Say you want to communicate with someone you trust, and you don't want anyone else to have any ability to see what you are saying. Well then, encrypted peer-to-peer is a pretty good option.
If you don't really trust who you are communicating with, and don't want them connecting to you directly such that they would see your IP etc, then Tor is the better option.