So..  looks like I have some reading to do.   I have a basic understand of WHY one would use a TOR network.  Now I need to educate myself on how it all works.    20 years away from CIS classes makes one a little rusty.

Some links I’ll be checking out:

onion routing definition – computer

A method for anonymous communications over a wide area network such as the Internet. It hides the names of the parties that are communicating as well as the data by encrypting the payload in layers, with a different encryption layer for each hop in the route. Using cooperating proxy routers throughout the network, the initiating onion router, called a “….

Go Online without Getting Snooped: Tor (The Onion Router)

step 1 — How Tor Works
An “onion router” is an Internet site that takes requests for web-pages and passes them onto other onion routers, and on to other onion routers, until one of them finally decides to fetch the page and pass it back through the layers of the onion until it reaches you. The t….

Tor: Overview

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organ…