The Tor Project provides its open-source software, the “Tor Browser“, and a decentralized network infrastructure designed to facilitate anonymous communication and circumvent internet censorship. By employing a multi-layered encryption technique known as onion routing, the service directs web traffic through a global series of volunteer-operated relays, effectively concealing user location and usage patterns from network surveillance.
The ecosystem includes the Tor Browser, specialized privacy-focused operating systems, and the technical framework for onion services, which enable secure, end-to-end encrypted hosting within the network.
It permits to access the specific “.onion” TLD sites that normal browsers can’t.
