MIT creates Vuvuzela, a software to surf anonymously … – starMedia (Press Release)

With a great sense of humor, MIT engineers have christened his last Vuvuzela idea. An alternative to Tor works noise filling the network.

In modern times it has become essential to find ways to surf the web anonymously because of the vulnerability we all suffer network. Today MIT has presented an alternative. Vuvuzela, a software that fills noise network so you can surf anonymously without problems

During the World Cup 2010 all learned a new word that evokes an irritating buzz: vuvuzela. Now, in a remarkable demonstration of humor, four engineers at MIT have so christened his latest idea.

As you may recall, Tor is a software that gets become anonymous on the Internet wearing your connection for very complex routing , making it impossible to track you. Tor will also open the door to a group of websites known as “darknet” or “deep web” that are not available with your regular Internet connection.

There are already very popular alternative to Tor, as I2P and Hornet. Vuvuzela works differently to these networks so complicated: using less encryption, but a lot of junk traffic. These information data are lacking noise helps hide the actual connection.

When a user sends a message through Vuvuzela, it goes through several interconnected servers, which in turn send the rest of noise users. The message is stored in a certain mailbox and notifies the container that have been written. The user then runs mailboxes, trash generating new traffic, until it reaches its message.

At the end there is not much traffic going through the network value that a hypothetical spy might not know who is talking to whom. Vuvuzela has been successfully tested in the Amazon EC2 servers simulated one million users and the exchange of 15,000 messages per second.

The problem with these networks is that complicate both the connection is very slow. In its first test, Vuvuzela had a latency of 44 seconds. Its creators believe, with a reasonable number of users, the latency is acceptable for email and messaging applications

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