./net/tor, Anonymizing overlay network for TCP

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Branch: pkgsrc-2011Q4, Version: 0.2.2.35, Package name: tor-0.2.2.35, 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: 98408e08c0c616c4c7669d018a66c55fc660cad3
RMD160: 9986f0892d410de9f3d496a5db6de29288295e92
Filesize: 2722.203 KB

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