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Garlic Routing is a variant of Onion Routing which I2P (Invisible Internet Project) uses. The fundamentals of garlic routing and garlic encryption were developed by Michael Freedman and were improved and implemented by the developers of the I2P project. It encrypts multiple messages together to make it harder for attackers to analyze traffic. To protect the ...
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TL;DR: It’s complicated. It depends on your threat model and how well you configure everything.
This is one of the top questions on the Tor Project site [1]. They recommend VPNs (with Tor) only for advanced users and refer to a wiki entry for details.
The discussion below is a summary of the wiki entry, together with some thoughts of mine:
The arrangement ...
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