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why's it called tor?

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Roger Dingledine 23 years ago
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@@ -19,6 +19,15 @@ routers'). Users bounce their tcp streams (web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc)
 around the routers, and recipients, observers, and even the routers
 around the routers, and recipients, observers, and even the routers
 themselves have difficulty tracking the source of the stream.
 themselves have difficulty tracking the source of the stream.
 
 
+1.2. Why's it called tor?
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+Because tor is the onion routing system. I kept telling people I was
+working on onion routing, and they said "Neat. Which one?" Even if onion
+routing has become a standard household term, this is the actual onion
+routing project, started out of the Naval Research Lab.
+
+(Theories about recursive acronyms are ok too.)
+
 
 
 2. Compiling and installing.
 2. Compiling and installing.