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TOR is the legacy name, an acronym for The Onion Router. The modern spelling is preferred, but it isn't incorrect to call the project TOR. https://en.wikipedi
by linkregister 10y ago
TOR is the legacy name, an acronym for The Onion Router. The modern spelling is preferred, but it isn't incorrect to call the project TOR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
- mirimir 10y agoWell, Paul Syverson says that it's Tor, not TOR, and has never been an acronym. https://www.acsac.org/2011/program/keynotes/syverson.pdf https://www.acsac.org/2011/program/keynotes/syverson.pdf
- Dylan16807 10y ago> He would respond that it was the onion routing, the original program of projects from NRL. It was Rachel Greenstadt who noted to him that this was a nice acronym and gave Tor its name. Roger then observed that it also works well as a recursive acronym, ‘Tor’s onion routing’. It was also his decision that it should be written ‘Tor’ not ‘TOR’. Making it more of an ordinary word in this way also emphasizes the overlap of meaning with the German word ‘Tor’, which is gate (as in a city gate). To sum up, “Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router” is about the design of onion-routing systems, not just onion routers themselves. Tor is the third generation of onion rout- ing, not the second. And the ‘r’ in ‘Tor’ represents ‘routing’ not ‘router’. In hindsight we probably should have spent a bit more time on the paper title. You have a significantly different definition of "not an acronym" than I do.
- mirimir 10y agoSorry, I misspoke. It's not an acronym for "the onion router", but rather for "the onion routing".