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  <title>Tor: How it works</title>
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<h2>Tor: How it works</h2>
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<p>
<a href="overview.html">Basic Tor overview</a>: what Tor provides, why it
matters, how it works.
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<p>
<a href="cvs/tor/doc/tor-doc.html">Installing,
configuring, and running Tor</a>.
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<p>The <b>design document</b> (published at Usenix
Security 2004) gives our justifications and security analysis for the
Tor design:</p>
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<li><a href="cvs/tor/doc/design-paper/tor-design.pdf">PDF version</a></li>
<li><a href="cvs/tor/doc/design-paper/tor-design.html">HTML version</a></li>
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<p>Our follow-up paper on <b>challenges in low-latency anonymity</b>
(still in draft form) details more recent experiences and directions:
<a href="cvs/tor/doc/design-paper/challenges.pdf">PDF version</a>.</p>

<p>The <b>specification</b> aims to give
developers enough information to build a compatible version of Tor:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="cvs/tor/doc/tor-spec.txt">Main Tor specification</a></li>
<li><a href="cvs/tor/doc/rend-spec.txt">Tor rendezvous specification</a></li>
<li><a href="cvs/tor/doc/control-spec.txt">Tor UI control specification</a></li>
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<p>Look at the <a href="http://freehaven.net/~arma/21c3-slides.pdf">slides
from the 21C3 talk</a>. For something more obsolete,
look at the <a href="slides-codecon04/">slides from the Codecon
2004 talk</a>, or <a href="CodeCon_2004-02-21_2.mp3">listen
to the audio from the talk</a>.</p>

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