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Source: tor
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Section: comm
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Priority: optional
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Maintainer: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
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Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.65), libssl-dev, dpatch
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Standards-Version: 3.6.1
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Package: tor
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Architecture: any
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2004-02-17 01:48:33 +01:00
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Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, adduser, tsocks
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2004-02-17 05:45:27 +01:00
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Recommends: privoxy
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Suggests: mixmaster, mixminion, anon-proxy
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2004-01-31 10:11:46 +01:00
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Description: anonymizing overlay network for TCP
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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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2004-01-13 15:20:31 +01:00
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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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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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