Why and How you should start using Onion Networking
Channel: British Computer Society Open Source Specialists
Date: 2019-07-20

Speaker: Alec Muffett

The internet began as a network where any computer could communicate directly with any other; but today there are host firewalls, perimeter firewalls, content filters, NATs, DNS restrictions, BGP hijacks and all manner of other challenges that limit you and your computers’ ability to communicate. The Tor “Onion” networking protocol is an alternate “disintermediated” layer 3 stack where you do not require permission nor (mostly) any setup in order to communicate directly from/to any well-known address, plus you gain a host of security & operational benefits. We describe this.

Alec Muffett has worked in host and network security for 30 years, more than 22 of those in industry, holding senior consulting, architecture and engineering roles at Sun Microsystems and Facebook. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Rights Group, a member of the Security and Privacy Executive of the British Computer Society, and a security engineer at Deliveroo.