./net/tor, Anonymizing overlay network for TCP

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Branch: pkgsrc-2010Q3, Version: 0.2.1.26nb1, Package name: tor-0.2.1.26nb1, Maintainer: athaba

The simple version: Tor provides a distributed network of servers ("onion
routers"). Users bounce their TCP streams (web traffic, FTP, SSH, etc.) around
the routers. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, and even the onion
routers themselves to track the source of the stream.

The complex version: 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.



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SHA1: 87af7aa658774031d181340848a875e4fd8e27bf
RMD160: 6fe03ec4a8f72c9eda4a47370ebb240db78a4a39
Filesize: 2349.364 KB

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