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  1. Source: tor
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  2. Section: comm
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  3. Priority: optional
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  4. Maintainer: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
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  5. Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.65), libssl-dev, dpatch
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  6. Standards-Version: 3.6.1
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  8. Package: tor
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  9. Architecture: any
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  10. Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, adduser, tsocks
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  11. Recommends: privoxy
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  12. Suggests: mixmaster, mixminion, anon-proxy
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  13. Description: anonymizing overlay network for TCP
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  14.  Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system which
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  15.  addresses many flaws in the original onion routing design.
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  16.  .
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  17.  In brief, Onion Routing is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication
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  18.  service. Users choose a source-routed path through a set of nodes, and
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  19.  negotiate a "virtual circuit" through the network, in which each node
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  20.  knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down
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  21.  the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node, which reveals
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  22.  the downstream node.
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  23.  .
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  24.  Basically Tor provides a distributed network of servers ("onion
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  25.  routers"). Users bounce their tcp streams (web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc)
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  26.  around the routers, and recipients, observers, and even the routers
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  27.  themselves have difficulty tracking the source of the stream.
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  28.  .
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  29.  Note that Tor does no protocol cleaning.  That means there is a danger that
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  30.  application protocols and associated programs can be induced to reveal
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  31.  information about the initiator.  Tor depends on Privoxy and similar protocol
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  32.  cleaners to solve this problem.
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  33.  .
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  34.  Client applications can use the Tor network by connecting to the local
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  35.  onion proxy.  If the application itself does not come with socks support
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  36.  you can use a socks client such as tsocks.  Some web browsers like mozilla
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  37.  and web proxies like privoxy come with socks support, so you don't need an
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  38.  extra socks client if you want to use Tor with them.
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  39.  .
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  40.  This package enables only the onion proxy by default, but it can be configured
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  41.  as a relay (server) node.
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  42.  .
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  43.  Remember that this is alpha code, and the network is very small -- Tor will
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  44.  not provide anonymity currently.
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  45.  .
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  46.  The latest information can be found at http://freehaven.net/tor/, or on the
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  47.  mailing lists, archived at http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/ or
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  48.  http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/.
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