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+Source: tor
+Section: comm
+Priority: optional
+Maintainer: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.65), libssl-dev, dpatch
+Standards-Version: 3.6.1
+
+Package: tor
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
+Recommends: privoxy, tsocks
+Suggests: mixmaster, mixminion, anon-proxy
+Description: anonymous communication system
+ Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system which
+ addresses many flaws in the original onion routing design.
+ .
+ In brief, 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.
+ .
+ Basically Tor provides a distributed network of servers ("onion
+ 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.
+ .
+ Note that Tor does not protocol cleaning.  That means there is a danger that
+ application protocols and associated programs can be induced to reveal
+ information about the initiator.  Tor depends on Privoxy and similar protocol
+ cleaners to solve this problem.
+ .
+ Client applications can use the Tor network by connecting to the local
+ onion proxy.  If the application itself does not come with socks support
+ you can use a socks client such as tsocks.  Some web browsers like mozilla
+ and web proxies like privoxy come with socks support, you don't need an
+ extra socks client if you want to use Tor with them.
+ .
+ Remember that this is alpha code, and the network is very small -- Tor will
+ not provide anonymity currently.