Session is fundamentally different than most other secure messaging services. Conversations in Session are secured using client-side E2E encryption . Only the sender and the recipient of a message can read it. But Session goes beyond providing message security. Session also protects the identities of its users. It makes your communications private and anonymous, as well as secure. Session can do this because it connects users through a Tor -like network of thousands of Service Nodes . Service Nodes are servers that pass messages back and forth through the network as well as provide additional services. The onion request system that Session uses to protect messages ensures that no Service Node in the network ever knows both a message’s origin (your IP address) and destination (the recipient’s IP address). This allows you to hide your IP by default. Session takes a number of additional steps to protect your identity: No phone number is required for registration No email is r