The paid search engine Kagi has added an even more private way to search. The new feature, called Privacy Pass, lets you make searches without having them traced back to you.
Privacy Pass is based on an authentication protocol standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force. It works by allowing users to authenticate themselves to servers like Kagi by generating tokens, which Kagi says are “indistinguishable from a randomly generated token from the server’s point of view.” The…
