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The Loopix Anonymity System Wants to Be a More Secure Alternative to Tor

September 16, 2017 By Catalin Cimpanu

 

Loopix is a new anonymity network developed by a group of researchers from University College London (UCL) that comes with all the good parts of previous systems and new additions to improve security.

 

Both Loopix and Tor are based on the concept of mix networks and are meant to provide a way to send anonymous messages through a complex network.

 

The way Tor achieves this is through its circuit-based onion routing protocol. On the other hand, Loopix uses a classic message-based architecture combined with Poisson mixing — adding random time delays to each message.

 

The end result is an anonymity network that is very secure but also fixes the main disadvantage of classic message-based architectures, which is high-latency.

 

As the UCL team points out in their research paper, the Loopix system has a “message latency is on the order of seconds – which is relatively low for a mix-system..

 

 

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