Uses Oxen Service Nodes (also used by Session) as routers to safeguard user privacy and anonymity.
An onion-routing network that rides on Oxen Service Nodes, the same infrastructure behind Session, which is both its differentiator and its risk: a smaller, less-scrutinized network than Tor with a far thinner relay base. That means weaker anonymity-set guarantees in practice, however clever the design. It’s worth watching and experimenting with if mixnet alternatives interest you. For anything where your safety actually depends on the result, Tor’s maturity and scale still win.
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Why it matters: Strong copyleft keeps every distributed version open. A vendor cannot fold this into a closed product and ship it without releasing their changes.
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