Portable TOR Router with Raspberry Pi
Nowadays, internet has become an important part of everyone's lives. The internet has turned out to be a reliable tool for communication, data transfer and many more applications for people from all over the world. An individual's internet activities are being tracked and traced without their knowledge by various means. Thus, online security is a genuine worry for web clients who intend to visit interpersonal interaction locales, make an online transaction, or take an interest in internet diversions, as they need their protection to be ensured. Internet browsing is not anonymized as many Internet Service Providers (ISP's) could legally sell users information without informing users. People's internet activities are being tracked and traced by ISPs. Moreover, network spies and snooping attempts are very hard to be defeated as an ample network snooping tools are available in the market. These issues can be curbed by using a router that has anonymous browsing infrastructure. However, most of the routers that gives anonymous browsing are not portable. From this project, people will be able to browse anonymously without being traced. Besides that, network snooping and spying attempts can be defeated. Finally, a portable The Onion Routing (TOR) router can be created with a Raspberry Pi..
Tor under attack
A technology relied on by activists, whistleblowers, journalists and people operating under oppressive regimes is coming under attack from a number of directions. The Onion Router (Tor) technology was initially developed by the US Naval Research Laboratory, and is now supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) which distributes an easily used browser package. Yet, in spite of its impeccable credentials, Tor is the target of subversion attempts by governments and exploitation by criminals.
Analysis of current VPN technologies
This paper deals with current virtual private network (VPN) technologies, such as Internet protocol security (IPSec), layer two tunneling protocol (L2TP), and point to point tunneling protocol (PPTP). Furthermore, the VPN solution of the Austrian company Phion Information Technologies is presented. After a short introduction to the basics of each protocol, the strengths and weaknesses of each technology are outlined, as far as interoperability, manageability, and practical problems is concerned. This is done by means of a practical analysis and comparison of the results. The analysis includes performance measurement, link quality and stability analysis, feature comparison, interaction with TCP/IP protocols, and some basic security attacks. In order to provide comparable results, all technologies were tested in the same manner. However, this paper does not provide explicit recommendations which technology is to be preferred.