Seth David Schoen writes: > If you read the original Tor design paper from 2004, censorship > circumvention was actually not an intended application at that time: > > https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-design.pdf > > ("Tor does not try to conceal who is connected to the network.")
The connection to censorship circumvention is that, on a censored network, people are normally not allowed to connect to censorship circumvention services (that the network operator knows about). So if you allow the network operator to easily know who is connecting to the service -- as the 2004 version of Tor always did -- they can block it immediately (as several governments did when they noticed Tor was becoming popular in their countries). Now that Tor also has censorship circumvention as a goal, there are several methods it can use to try to disguise the fact that a particular person is connected to the Tor network. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- 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