Security researchers based in Zurich and London have found a way to mask data in a way that it has less overheads that slow it down.
The new high speed encryption system called Hornet, will allow data to move around at speeds of upto 93GBps.
The creater of Hornet say slowness in data is due to encryption done several times as data travels. Tor encrypts data as it hops randomly between the servers or relays that make up the network.
Encrypting and decrypting data many times adds a processing overhead, which means browsing the web via Tor can be slow and frustrating.
Hornet is conceptually similar to The Onion Router (Tor) network that many people currently use to disguise from where they are browsing the web.
Hornet avoids some of the problems that limit how many users a Tor-like system can handle by changing the way it handles information about where data is going.
By removing some of this administrative overhead, it is possible to speed up the passage of data through the network's anonymising core.
According to Hornet’s paper, the changes made make Hornet less susceptible to some of the attacks that have been used to unmask people who use Tor.
