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Re:The Tor Project: Building the Next Generation of Onion Se... by y4mi on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:06PM (#11762687)
can TOR be considered to be on the transport layer though? i thought it worked with TCP, so it would need to be at least OSI level 5 iirc?
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Re:The Tor Project: Building the Next Generation of Onion Se... by duozerk on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:25PM (#11762874)
> so it would need to be at least OSI level 5 iirc

You're right; actually tor reside in the application layer I think (above TLS).

Although conceptually speaking it is itself a transport layer I guess.

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Re:The Tor Project: Building the Next Generation of Onion Se... by lrem on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:23PM (#11762858)
OSI level is cute, especially once you start to interpret ip over https ;)
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Re:The Tor Project: Building the Next Generation of Onion Se... by brobinson on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @08:14PM (#11766683)
Tor is a layer 4 overlay network.

Layer 5 would be HTTP, layer 6 would be the content (JPEG, MP4, etc.), and layer 7 would be the application serving or sending the HTTP requests/content.

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