./net/tor, Anonymizing overlay network for TCP

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Branch: pkgsrc-2012Q2, Version: 0.2.2.38, Package name: tor-0.2.2.38, 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.


Required to build:
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SHA1: abac1902d301c6bd5d522e4cc81aead3299cf968
RMD160: 4402b590435c773b453234ca22b346bafb37376c
Filesize: 2859.863 KB

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   2012-08-22 10:55:41 by Matthias Scheler | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
Pullup ticket #3910 - requested by drochner
net/tor: security update

Revisions pulled up:
- net/tor/Makefile                                              1.88
- net/tor/distinfo                                              1.55

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   Module Name:    pkgsrc
   Committed By:   drochner
   Date:           Mon Aug 13 17:13:45 UTC 2012

   Modified Files:
           pkgsrc/net/tor: Makefile distinfo

   Log message:
   update to 0.2.2.38
   Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a rare race condition that can crash exit relays;
   fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug; and fixes a timing attack that
   could in theory leak path information.