I’m a tor novice, so please excuse the simplistic question…
Couldn’t a national security organization just modify a node to route traffic to other nodes it controls instead of uncontrolled nodes?
Couldn’t a national security organization just modify a node to route traffic to other nodes it controls instead of uncontrolled nodes?
The client controls path selection, and each hop is verified using its encryption keys.
The client encrypts traffic to each node on its selected path in turn. If the traffic doesn't reach every desired node in order the traffic can't be decrypted.