{"id":22548,"date":"2022-05-08T10:26:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T14:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=22548"},"modified":"2022-05-08T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T14:26:35","slug":"tor-project-upgrades-network-speed-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/tor-project-upgrades-network-speed-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tor Project Upgrades Network Speed Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tor Project has come out with a new system called Congestion Control that aims to remove speed limits on the network. This new system is currently running in its latest stable release &#8211; the Tor protocol version 0.4.7.7<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to those who spearheaded the project, Congestion Control will result in significant performance improvements and increased utilization of the Tor network capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project aims to hide users&#8217; real location and browsing interests, establishing true internet user privacy and anonymity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To avoid slowing down internet speed, this new system implements three algorithms, namely Tor-Westwood, Tor-Vegas, and Tor-NOLA, which all help reduce memory consumption and stabilize as well as minimize queue delay and latency:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tor Westwood &#8211; minimizes packet loss in large pipes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tor-Vegas &#8211; estimates queue length and implements balancing elements<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tor-NOLA &#8211; functions as a bandwidth-delay estimator.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-ar-index=\"8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tor project has run simulations to compare versions 0.4.6 and 0.4.7, yielding impressive results across the board,\u00a0 with enhanced browsing free of speed limitations and bottlenecks, without being a burden on end-to-end latency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"10\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/tor-project-upgrades-network-speed-performance-with-new-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleepingcomputer. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tor Project has come out with a new system called Congestion Control that aims to remove speed limits on the network. This new system is currently running in its latest stable release &#8211; the Tor protocol version 0.4.7.7 According to those who spearheaded the project, Congestion Control will result in significant performance improvements and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-transformation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22550,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22548\/revisions\/22550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}