Chris Tarbell

And so it's encrypted and so can't read it.

It goes to that first relay.

That first relay knows about you and then knows about the next relay down the chain.

And so it takes your data and then encrypts that on the outside and sends it to relay number two.

Now, relay number two only knows about relay number one.

It doesn't know who you are asking for this.

And it goes through there, adding those layers on top, layers of encryption until it gets where it is.

And then even the onion service doesn't know, except for the

the relay it came from, who it's talking to.

And so it peels back that, gives the information, puts another layer back on.

And so it's layers like you're peeling an onion back of the different relays, and that encryption protects who the sender is and what information they're sending.

You get to a place where you don't have to have so many layers because it doesn't matter anymore.

It's mathematically impossible to decrypt it.

But the more relays you have, the slower it is.

That's one of the big drawbacks on Tor is how slow it operates.

It's very difficult.

People have come up with different techniques.

There's been techniques to put out in the news media.

about how they do it, running massive amounts of relays, and you're controlling those relays.

I think somebody tried that once.