I had heard that the original use case were to protect their (US navy) ships against command center localisation through RF harvesting. The onion routing of the admiral commands through a few boats means enemmies can't detect which on is giving orders.
2015-07-29 14:32 GMT+02:00 Virgil Griffith <i...@virgil.gr>: > intending to use Tor for? > > I know the classic story of US intelligence agents wanting to phone home > from Beijing hotels without Chinese intelligence knowing they were phoning > home as a partial motivation for open-sourcing Tor. > > But what was the Navy/military originally hoping to use Tor-related > protocols for? It's unclear to me what their historical motivations were. > > -V > -- > 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 > -- 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