The Onion Router: Is the Onion Network Suitable for Cloud Technologies

Abstract

The present paper introduces the Onion Router (TOR) also known as anonymity network. In the time of cloud technologies, when everything is stored partially or completely remote the question for our information safety is felicitous all the time. Usually the answer is no. Of course, there is an explanation for that, too. Companies think that their software is perfectly safe, because they previse every known threat and make it stable—no known viruses and bugs are provided with this implementation. The key word is known. Yes, expert programmers can write safe and reliable code, to resist on any familiar menace, but attackers are always a step forward—they find a new code vulnerability and prevail the software. Then developers provide a fix. Then everything starts all over—that is the vulnerability life cycle. For the first time developers take a step forward—so called TOR. It is an attempt for a safer network, a tentative to stop tracing packets, so our personal data could be safe even in the cloud. Main purpose of this paper is to provide discussion about cloud technologies, TOR network and how they can work together. As main subject is pointed a group parameter hold solution which purpose is to increase the security level of the TOR network itself.