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@@ -18,16 +18,16 @@ SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
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-__tor__ is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication
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+Tor is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication
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service. Users choose a source-routed path through a set of nodes, and
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negotiate a "virtual circuit" through the network, in which each node
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knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down
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the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node, which reveals
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the downstream node. +
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-Basically __tor__ provides a distributed network of servers ("onion routers").
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-Users bounce their TCP streams -- web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc -- around the
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-routers, and recipients, observers, and even the routers themselves have
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+Basically, Tor provides a distributed network of servers or relays ("onion routers").
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+Users bounce their TCP streams -- web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc. -- around the
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+network, and recipients, observers, and even the relays themselves have
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difficulty tracking the source of the stream.
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Nick Mathewson