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%define initdir /etc/rc.d/init.d
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-Summary: tor: The Onion Router; patent-free Onion Routing
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+Summary: tor: anonymizing overlay network for TCP
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Name: tor
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Version: 0.0.2pre20
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Vendor: R. Dingledine <arma@seul.org>
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@@ -23,15 +23,34 @@ Requires(pre): %{_sbindir}/useradd, %{_sbindir}/groupadd
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BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{relbase}-root
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%description
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-tor is a system which attempts to conceal the sources of TCP connections
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-by relaying those connections through multiple independently administered
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-forwarding nodes; it is a "cascaded mix" system. Among older systems,
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-tor is most similar to Onion Routing. The basic concept of tor is also
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-similar to that of the Zero Knowledge Freedom system or the Java Anonymous
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-Proxy. The "onions" used in tor are similar in concept to the reply blocks
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-used with type I "cypherpunks" anonymous remailers. Feeding phrases
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-from this paragraph into search engines should give you more background
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-information than you really want.
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+Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system which
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+addresses many flaws in the original onion routing design.
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+In brief, Onion Routing 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
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+routers"). Users bounce their tcp streams (web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc)
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+around the routers, and recipients, observers, and even the routers
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+themselves have difficulty tracking the source of the stream.
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+Note that Tor does no protocol cleaning. That means there is a danger that
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+application protocols and associated programs can be induced to reveal
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+information about the initiator. Tor depends on Privoxy and similar protocol
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+cleaners to solve this problem.
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+Client applications can use the Tor network by connecting to the local
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+onion proxy. If the application itself does not come with socks support
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+you can use a socks client such as tsocks. Some web browsers like mozilla
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+and web proxies like privoxy come with socks support, so you don't need an
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+extra socks client if you want to use Tor with them.
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+
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+Remember that this is alpha code, and the network is very small -- Tor will
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+not provide anonymity currently.
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This package provides the "tor" program, which serves as both a client
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and a relay node. Scripts will automatically create a "tor" user and
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Roger Dingledine