Wired on Navy's new version of Onion Routing

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http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,64464,00.html
Onion Routing Averts Prying Eyes
By Ann Harrison

Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64464,00.html

02:00 AM Aug. 05, 2004 PT

Computer programmers are modifying a communications system, originally
developed by the U.S. Naval Research Lab, to help Internet users surf the
Web anonymously and shield their online activities from corporate or
government eyes.

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The Navy is financing the development of a second-generation onion-routing
system called Tor, which addresses many of the flaws in the original
design and makes it easier to use. The Tor client behaves like a SOCKS
proxy (a common protocol for developing secure communication services),
allowing applications like Mozilla, SSH and FTP clients to talk directly
to Tor and route data streams through a network of onion routers, without
long delays.

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