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| author | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2002-10-02 03:44:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2002-10-02 03:44:12 +0000 |
| commit | b289e15f076d8fb0f16003c3308a1792a0de0a6b (patch) | |
| tree | 011ddee68d9fd252b21127cc0c1e3fc26d050145 | |
| parent | 68baf3182e48d2a838fb2ca3c1d8b18b23a3f60c (diff) | |
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why's it called tor?
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@@ -19,6 +19,15 @@ routers'). Users bounce their tcp streams (web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc) around the routers, and recipients, observers, and even the routers themselves have difficulty tracking the source of the stream. +1.2. Why's it called tor? + +Because tor is the onion routing system. I kept telling people I was +working on onion routing, and they said "Neat. Which one?" Even if onion +routing has become a standard household term, this is the actual onion +routing project, started out of the Naval Research Lab. + +(Theories about recursive acronyms are ok too.) + 2. Compiling and installing. |