Paul, Thank you for enunciating that I/we have a clearer picture of Tor's origins now.
Robert > -----Original Message----- > From: paul.syver...@nrl.navy.mil > Sent: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 20:35:44 -0400 > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Summer of Privacy > >>> Well, I haven't read a lot, but I think there was this history of TOR >>> where a couple of blokes did what made most sense to them at the time, >>> and the government (I would attribute "opportunistically") chose to >>> fund that. >> >> http://www.onion-router.net/History.html >> >> "1995: Initial work on Onion Routing begins, funded by ONR." >> >> I'm guessing 'ONR' is this http://www.onr.navy.mil/ > > *sigh* If you're going to commit ad hominems and fallacies of division > at least try to be competent about it. You shouldn't be focused on > mere funding (and anyway you missed that we started DARPA funding in > 1996); Those couple of blokes in 1995 were myself and other > U.S. govt. employees (Naval Research Laboratory). We didn't hire any > contractors till 1997 and not Roger and Nick (with whom I did the > initial Tor design) until 2001 or 2002. > > More details on the history at > https://www.acsac.org/2011/program/keynotes/ -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
