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- Source: tor
- Section: comm
- Priority: optional
- Maintainer: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
- Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.65), libssl-dev, dpatch
- Standards-Version: 3.6.1
- Package: tor
- Architecture: any
- Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, adduser
- Recommends: privoxy, tsocks
- Suggests: mixmaster, mixminion, anon-proxy
- Description: anonymous communication system
- Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system which
- addresses many flaws in the original onion routing design.
- .
- In brief, Onion Routing is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication
- service. Users choose a source-routed path through a set of nodes, and
- negotiate a "virtual circuit" through the network, in which each node
- knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down
- the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node, which reveals
- the downstream node.
- .
- Basically Tor provides a distributed network of servers ("onion
- routers"). Users bounce their tcp streams (web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc)
- around the routers, and recipients, observers, and even the routers
- themselves have difficulty tracking the source of the stream.
- .
- Note that Tor does no protocol cleaning. That means there is a danger that
- application protocols and associated programs can be induced to reveal
- information about the initiator. Tor depends on Privoxy and similar protocol
- cleaners to solve this problem.
- .
- Client applications can use the Tor network by connecting to the local
- onion proxy. If the application itself does not come with socks support
- you can use a socks client such as tsocks. Some web browsers like mozilla
- and web proxies like privoxy come with socks support, so you don't need an
- extra socks client if you want to use Tor with them.
- .
- Remember that this is alpha code, and the network is very small -- Tor will
- not provide anonymity currently.
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