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tor is no longer a network-... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`51) Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to`
revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`52) improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables`
Apply strunk&white, clarify... Nick Mathewson authored 20 years ago	`53) software developers to create new communication tools 54) with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for 55) a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals`
revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`56) to share information over public networks without compromising their 57) privacy.`
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finally wrap the rest of to... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	61) Individuals use Tor to keep websites from tracking them and their family 62) members, or to connect to news sites, instant messaging services, or the 63) like when these are blocked by their local Internet providers. Tor's <a 64) href="http://tor.eff.org/doc/tor-hidden-service.html">hidden services</a> 65) let users publish web sites and other services without needing to reveal 66) the location of the site. Individuals also use Tor for socially sensitive 67) communication: chat rooms and web forums for rape and abuse survivors, 68) or people with illnesses.
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finally wrap the rest of to... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`72) Journalists use Tor to communicate more safely with whistleblowers and 73) dissidents. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) use Tor to allow their 74) workers to connect to their home website while they're in a foreign 75) country, without notifying everybody nearby that they're working with 76) that organization.`
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finally wrap the rest of to... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`80) Groups such as Indymedia recommend Tor for safeguarding their members' 81) online privacy and security. Activist groups like the Electronic Frontier 82) Foundation (EFF) are supporting Tor's development as a mechanism for 83) maintaining civil liberties online. Corporations use Tor as a safe way 84) to conduct competitive analysis, and to protect sensitive procurement`
and stop linking to tor-doc... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	85) patterns from eavesdroppers. They also use it to replace traditional 86) VPNs, which reveal the exact amount and timing of communication. Which 87) locations have employees working late? Which locations have employees 88) consulting job-hunting websites? Which research divisions are communicating 89) with the company's patent lawyers? 90) </p> 91) 92) <p> 93) A branch of the U.S. Navy uses Tor for open source intelligence 94) gathering, and one of its teams used Tor while deployed in the Middle 95) East recently. Law enforcement uses Tor for visiting or surveilling 96) web sites without leaving government IP addresses in their web logs, 97) and for security during sting operations.
finally wrap the rest of to... Roger Dingledine authored 19 years ago	`98) </p> 99) 100) <p> 101) The variety of people who use Tor is actually <a 102) href="http://freehaven.net/doc/fc03/econymics.pdf">part of what makes 103) it so secure</a>. Tor hides you among the other users on the network, 104) so the more populous and diverse the user base for Tor is, the more your 105) anonymity will be protected.`
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clean up tor website furthe... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`108) <h3>Why we need Tor</h3>`
revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	109) 110) <p> 111) Using Tor protects you against a common form of Internet surveillance 112) known as "traffic analysis." Traffic analysis can be used to infer 113) who is talking to whom over a public network. Knowing the source 114) and destination of your Internet traffic allows others to track your 115) behavior and interests. This can impact your checkbook if, for example, 116) an e-commerce site uses price discrimination based on your country or 117) institution of origin. It can even threaten your job and physical safety
website fixes suggested by... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`118) by revealing who and where you are. For example, if you're travelling 119) abroad and you connect to your employer's computers to check or send mail, 120) you can inadvertently reveal your national origin and professional`
Apply strunk&white, clarify... Nick Mathewson authored 20 years ago	`121) affiliation to anyone observing the network, even if the connection`
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revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`123) </p> 124) 125) <p> 126) How does traffic analysis work? Internet data packets have two parts:`
website fixes suggested by... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`127) a data payload and a header used for routing. The data payload is`
revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`128) whatever is being sent, whether that's an email message, a web page, or an 129) audio file. Even if you encrypt the data payload of your communications, 130) traffic analysis still reveals a great deal about what you're doing and, 131) possibly, what you're saying. That's because it focuses on the header, 132) which discloses source, destination, size, timing, and so on. 133) </p> 134) 135) <p>`
website fixes suggested by... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`136) A basic problem for the privacy minded is that the recipient of your 137) communications can see that you sent it by looking at headers. So can`
revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	138) authorized intermediaries like Internet service providers, and sometimes 139) unauthorized intermediaries as well. A very simple form of traffic 140) analysis might involve sitting somewhere between sender and recipient on 141) the network, looking at headers. 142) </p> 143) 144) <p> 145) But there are also more powerful kinds of traffic analysis. Some 146) attackers spy on multiple parts of the Internet and use sophisticated 147) statistical techniques to track the communications patterns of many
Apply strunk&white, clarify... Nick Mathewson authored 20 years ago	`148) different organizations and individuals. Encryption does not help against 149) these attackers, since it only hides the content of Internet traffic, not 150) the headers.`
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clean up tor website furthe... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`153) <h3>The solution: a distributed, anonymous network</h3>`
revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`154) 155) <p> 156) Tor helps to reduce the risks of both simple and sophisticated traffic 157) analysis by distributing your transactions over several places on the 158) Internet, so no single point can link you to your destination. The idea 159) is similar to using a twisty, hard-to-follow route in order to throw off`
Apply strunk&white, clarify... Nick Mathewson authored 20 years ago	`160) somebody who is tailing you—and then periodically erasing your`
revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`161) footprints. Instead of taking a direct route from source to 162) destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway 163) through several servers that cover your tracks so no observer at any 164) single point can tell where the data came from or where it's going. 165) </p> 166)`
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revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`170) <p> 171) To create a private network pathway with Tor, the user's software or 172) client incrementally builds a circuit of encrypted connections through 173) servers on the network. The circuit is extended one hop at a time, and 174) each server along the way knows only which server gave it data and which`
Apply strunk&white, clarify... Nick Mathewson authored 20 years ago	`175) server it is giving data to. No individual server ever knows the`
revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`176) complete path that a data packet has taken. The client negotiates a 177) separate set of encryption keys for each hop along the circuit to ensure`
Apply strunk&white, clarify... Nick Mathewson authored 20 years ago	`178) that each hop can't trace these connections as they pass through.`
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revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	184) Once a circuit has been established, many kinds of data can be exchanged 185) and several different sorts of software applications can be deployed 186) over the Tor network. Because each server sees no more than one hop in 187) the circuit, neither an eavesdropper nor a compromised server can use 188) traffic analysis to link the connection's source and destination. Tor 189) only works for TCP streams and can be used by any application with SOCKS 190) support. 191) </p> 192) 193) <p> 194) For efficiency, the Tor software uses the same circuit for connections 195) that happen within the same minute or so. Later requests are given a 196) new circuit, to keep people from linking your earlier actions to the new 197) ones.
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clean up tor website furthe... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`202) <h3>Hidden services</h3>`
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first cut of new website Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`204) <p>`
revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	205) Tor also makes it possible for users to hide their locations while 206) offering various kinds of services, such as web publishing or an instant 207) messaging server. Using Tor "rendezvous points," other Tor users can 208) connect to these hidden services, each without knowing the other's 209) network identity. This hidden service functionality could allow Tor 210) users to set up a website where people publish material without worrying 211) about censorship. Nobody would be able to determine who was offering 212) the site, and nobody who offered the site would know who was posting to it.
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clean up tor website furthe... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`215) <h3>Staying anonymous</h3>`
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Apply strunk&white, clarify... Nick Mathewson authored 20 years ago	`218) Tor can't solve all anonymity problems. It focuses only on`
revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`219) protecting the transport of data. You need to use protocol-specific 220) support software if you don't want the sites you visit to see your`
website fixes suggested by... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`221) identifying information. For example, you can use web proxies such as 222) Privoxy while web browsing to block cookies and withhold information`
revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`223) about your browser type.`
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revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`227) Also, to protect your anonymity, be smart. Don't provide your name`
website fixes suggested by... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`228) or other revealing information in web forms. Be aware that, like all`
revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`229) anonymizing networks that are fast enough for web browsing, Tor does not`
website fixes suggested by... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`230) provide protection against end-to-end timing attacks: If your attacker`
revised overview text Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`231) can watch the traffic coming out of your computer, and also the traffic 232) arriving at your chosen destination, he can use statistical analysis to 233) discover that they are part of the same circuit. 234) </p> 235)`
clean up tor website furthe... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`236) <h3>The future of Tor</h3>`
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website fixes suggested by... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	`239) Providing a usable anonymizing network on the Internet today is an 240) ongoing challenge. We want software that meets users' needs. We also 241) want to keep the network up and running in a way that handles as many 242) users as possible. Security and usability don't have to be at odds: 243) As Tor's usability increases, it will attract more users, which will 244) increase the possible sources and destinations of each communication, 245) thus increasing security for everyone.`
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clean up last paragraph of... Roger Dingledine authored 20 years ago	253) Ongoing trends in law, policy, and technology threaten anonymity as never 254) before, undermining our ability to speak and read freely online. These 255) trends also undermine national security and critical infrastructure by 256) making communication among individuals, organizations, corporations, 257) and governments more vulnerable to analysis. Each new user and server 258) provides additional diversity, enhancing Tor's ability to put control 259) over your security and privacy back into your hands.
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