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Tor: Nine Servers You Didn't Know About

Expert discussions in recent months have increasingly returned to the Tor paradox. Thousands of researchers, open source code, and Snowden's documents all confirm that mass deanonymization is impossible. But the belief that "they see everything" persists.

There's one point that almost no one is paying attention to.

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The Tor architecture has NINE servers directory authorities. Their list is hardcoded. They don't see your traffic. But they determine which nodes are considered part of the network. They manage the "menu" from which your browser selects a route.

Now imagine a scenario that requires neither mass surveillance nor cryptographic hacking. An adversary has been infiltrating the Tor community for years. They support "non-profit organizations" that deploy dozens of nodes. They cultivate a loyal following around the directory authorities.

In normal times, these resources are not used. They simply exist.

But when a high-priority target emerges, a chain can be built where both input and output for a specific user are controlled. This isn't total control. It's a targeted operation that leaves minimal traces.

This is the true limit of anonymity in Tor. It's not that "they see everything." It's that if you become a target, they have tools you never even suspected.

🔗 More about Tor's architecture: ACM Communications, October 2015

Why does the intelligence community benefit from your belief in their omnipotence?

There's an interesting effect in the information war. If the intelligence community creates the impression of total control, they achieve two goals simultaneously.

FIRST, some users become paralyzed and stop even trying to defend themselves. The logic is simple: "Why do anything if everyone can see it anyway?"

SECOND, the very idea of ​​anonymity is discredited. "Tor was created by the military, so it must be a backdoor." This narrative is unproven, but effective.

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Pay attention to the facts. Snowden's documents contain no evidence of total control. Moreover, they explicitly admit that the NSA cannot deanonymize all Tor users. Technically, this is a colossally complex task terabytes of traffic, noise, real-time correlation.

But the very fact of the leaks has created a persistent myth that works for the intelligence community better than any hack. They don't need to control everyone. They just want you to think they can.

🔗 Snowden Documents and Threat Analysis: Tor Project Threat Model

COMPLETE LIST of Sources (TOR Supplement)

1. Base Layer |IP| : Source and Destination Addresses Always in the Packet Header
- [RFC 791] Internet Protocol (1981)

"The internet protocol provides for transmitting blocks of data called datagrams from sources to destinations, where sources and destinations are hosts identified by fixed-length addresses."

👉 What to Look for: Section 1.1 (p. 1) Description of Addressing; Section 3.1 (p. 11) Header Format with Source Address and Destination Address Fields.

🔗 Link: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc791

2. Transport Layer |TCP| : Full Connection Identification
- [RFC 793] Transmission Control Protocol (1981)

"A connection is fully specified by the pair of sockets at the ends."

👉 What to look for: Section 2.7 (p. 10) description of connection establishment; Section 3.1 (p. 15) header format with Source Port and Destination Port fields.

🔗 Link: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793

3. Application Layer |WebRTC| : IP Leaks in Modern Browsers
- [arXiv:2510.16168v1] WebRTC Metadata and IP Leakage in Modern Browsers (2025)

Research shows that Chrome and Firefox on Android reveal internal IP addresses via the ICE mechanism in WebRTC. Tor Browser consistently prevents all forms of leaks.

👉 What to look for: A section analyzing leaks in different browsers and comparing them with Tor Browser.

🔗 Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16168v1

4. How Tor is trying to fix this: Onion Routing
- [ACM Communications, October 2015] Onion Routing (p. 62)

Your traffic passes through a chain of three independent nodes. Each node only knows its neighbor. The data is encrypted in layers, like an onion. The exit node sees the website, but not you. The entry node sees you, but not the website. The gap between these two is anonymity.

👉 What to look for: A description of circuits, onion encryption, and the role of each node in the chain.

🔗 Link: https://mags.acm.org/communications/october_2015?pg=62
- [ACM Crossroads, Summer 2018] Tor Architecture (p. 20)

Technical overview: fixed cell sizes, TLS connections between nodes, circuit construction algorithm.

👉 What to look for: Description of Tor architecture, fixed cell sizes, and TLS connections between nodes.

🔗 Link: https://mags.acm.org/crossroads/summer_2018/?pg=20

5. What Tor Promises: Privacy Policy
- [Tor Browser Privacy Policy] Effective: October 30, 2025

"No collection of personal or sensitive user data. No tracking, telemetry, or analytics. No user accounts or identity linkage."

👉 What to look for: Section 2 (Shared Privacy Principles) and Section 3 (Application-Specific Data Practices) a detailed description of what data is NOT collected.

🔗 Link: https://www.torproject.org/privacy-policy/

6. Tor's Real Limits: Threat Model and Independent Research
6.1. Official Tor VPN Threat Model
- [Tor VPN Threat Model] August 6, 2025

Tor VPN provides censorship bypass, but it doesn't magically anonymize all applications. Pseudonymity levels (Linkable/Unlinkable Pseudonymity) are achieved only under certain conditions.

👉 What to look for: Section 2.2 (ICTM Security Invariants) definitions of protection levels; Section 2.3 (Activation Conditions) conditions under which anonymity can be compromised.

🔗 Link: https://support.torproject.org/tor-vpn/security/threat-model/
6.2. Who are the attackers?
- [Tor Project GitLab] Who is an attacker? (October 2024)

Attacker classification: local (ISP, Wi-Fi), network (malicious node operators), and those attacking the project itself (project attackers).

👉 What to look for: Sections "Local attackers," "Network attackers," "Project attackers" and their targets.

🔗 Link: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/community/-/blob/main/content/threat-model/network-attackers/contents.lr
6.3. Independent Research: Hidden Services Attack
- [IEEE Xplore] Bursttocell-Attn: Remote Fingerprinting Attack
(September 2025)

An attack on Tor (.onion) hidden services with 98.1% accuracy. The authors used fingerprinting (analysis of unique traffic characteristics) rather than encryption cracking.

👉 What to look for: Abstract and experimental results section.

🔗 Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11172778
6.4. Protocol Vulnerabilities: Covert Signal
- [MDPI] Cell-Sequence-Based Covert Signal for Tor De-Anonymization (September 2025)

Exploitation of two vulnerabilities in the Tor protocol: missing continuity checks and anomalous values ​​in RELAY_EARLY cell counters. Allows the embedding of covert signals in traffic.

👉 What to look for: Abstract, Section 1 (Introduction) and Section 4 (Proposed Attack) - description of the method.

🔗 Link: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/17/9/403


Bonus Track: Social Engineering Against Tor Infrastructure
a link that directly confirms that attacks on the project and community are not a conspiracy theory, but part of the official threat model:
- [Tor Project GitLab] Project Attackers

"Project attackers try to disrupt the Tor project itself, for instance by harassing core contributors or spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) within the community."

👉 What to look for: The "Project attackers" section, which describes methods such as infiltrating communication channels, interfering with management, targeting key employees, and attacks on malicious relay detection infrastructure.

🔗 Link: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/community/-/blob/main/content/threat-model/network-attackers/contents.lr#L73

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Quantum Threat and Silent Migration

Complete List of Sources (TOR Supplement)

Few people pay attention to what's happening in the field of post-quantum cryptography. But something important is happening there.

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NIST, the American Standards Institute, announced a ban on RSA and ECDSA starting in 2035. These are the algorithms that underpin much of internet security today, including Tor.

The Tor Project is already testing hybrid schemes: NTOR + NTRU, HybridOR. But there's a nuance that's rarely discussed.

This threat is called "collect now, decrypt later". An adversary can store encrypted traffic today and decrypt it in 10-15 years, when sufficiently powerful quantum computers become available.

For most users, this isn't a concern their correspondence will become obsolete faster. But if your data has long-term value (investigative journalism, political activism, trade secrets), a quantum future isn't an abstraction, but a very real risk.

Migrating to post-quantum algorithms will take years. And during this time, there will be a window of vulnerability that an adversary can exploit.

🔗 Post-quantum cryptography: research from NIST and the Tor Project

Tor: A User's Guide for the Sensible

Complete List of Sources (TOR Supplement)

After all this, it's important to acknowledge a simple, yet inconvenient truth for both sides of the debate.

Tor doesn't make you invisible. It makes surveillance very expensive.

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For 99% of users, this is enough. Your ISP, a random hacker, a local network administrator they all lose the ability to track your actions. This is a huge achievement that we've somehow stopped appreciating.

But for the 1% those who are truly vulnerable to intelligence agencies Tor isn't a guarantee, but only a first layer of defense. If you're on this list, you need additional measures: a VPN before Tor, multiple circuits, or ditching your browser in favor of specialized tools.

The question isn't whether "they're monitoring everything or not". The question is what risk group you're in and what measures are appropriate for your situation.

🔗 Threat Analysis and Recommendations: IEEE Xplore 2025 Research