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diff --git a/net/tor/DESCR b/net/tor/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..9aa64b82141 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/tor/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +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. |