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‘Dissent,’ a New Type of Security Tool, Could Markedly Improve Online Anonymity

Posted on September 17, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

No, they didn’t name it after me.  🙂

Motherboard reports:

Researchers at the Dissent Project are building a new kind of anonymity tool that, when used in conjunction with the Tor anonymity network, could significantly improve online anonymity.

Unlike Tor’s onion routing architecture, which routes internet traffic through a series of “onion layers” to obscure your identity, Dissent implements a dining cryptographers network, or DC-net, which makes possible cryptographically-provable anonymity.

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