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Section: User Commands (1)<BR>Updated: August 2005<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
tor - The second-generation onion router
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>tor</B>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<I>tor</I>
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.
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Basically <I>tor</I> 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.
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
<B>-h, -help</B>
Display a short help message and exit.
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<DT><B>-f </B><I>FILE</I><DD>
FILE contains further "option value" pairs. (Default: @CONFDIR@/torrc)
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<DT>Other options can be specified either on the command-line (<I>--option<DD>
