Which concept describes routing traffic through a sequence of proxies to obscure origin?

Which concept describes routing traffic through a sequence of proxies to obscure origin?

• A. Proxy Manager
• B. Proxy Chaining
• C. CyberGhost VPN
• D. Shadowsocks

Answer: (B)

Proxy chaining is routing traffic through several proxies in a sequence to obscure your origin. By passing data from one proxy to the next, no single hop sees both the original source and the final destination, making it harder to trace back to you. This increases anonymity and can help bypass simple IP-based tracking, but it also adds latency and introduces more points where data could be logged or tampered with. To keep the chain effective, end-to-end encryption (like HTTPS) is still important, because intermediate proxies could otherwise inspect unencrypted content. In contrast, a VPN provides a single encrypted tunnel to one server, not a multi-hop path, and Shadowsocks is a single-hop proxy tool; neither describes routing through a sequence of proxies by default.

Proxy chaining is routing traffic through several proxies in a sequence to obscure your origin. By passing data from one proxy to the next, no single hop sees both the original source and the final destination, making it harder to trace back to you. This increases anonymity and can help bypass simple IP-based tracking, but it also adds latency and introduces more points where data could be logged or tampered with. To keep the chain effective, end-to-end encryption (like HTTPS) is still important, because intermediate proxies could otherwise inspect unencrypted content. In contrast, a VPN provides a single encrypted tunnel to one server, not a multi-hop path, and Shadowsocks is a single-hop proxy tool; neither describes routing through a sequence of proxies by default.