Paul Syverson wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:24:18AM -0800, spencer...@openmailbox.org
wrote:
Krishna,
krishna e bera keb at cyblings.on.ca:
>Tor (not an uppercased acronym)
>
Why?
See p. 129 of http://www.acsac.org/2011/program/keynotes/syverson.pdf
also
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#WhyCalledTor
aloha,
Paul
(Note, the German meaning of 'Tor' mentioned in the FAQ is discussed in
the
"A Peel of Onion" paper, the Turkish meaning is apparently a
fine-meshed net.)
It also wouldn't be very fair to call it TOR as there's more than one
onion routing project out there ;-)
~Griffin
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"Cypherpunks write code, not flamewars."
~Jurre van Bergen
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