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The US Navy created the concept of onion routing. Tor was not developed by the US government, it was developed in public (by Roger Dingledine and the rest of th
by cyphar 7y ago
The US Navy created the concept of onion routing. Tor was not developed by the US government, it was developed in public (by Roger Dingledine and the rest of the Tor community).
- dragonwriter 7y ago> The US Navy created the concept of onion routing. Tor was not developed by the US government, Yes, it was, and it was released under a free license by the US Naval Research Lab in 2004. > it was developed in public (by Roger Dingledine and the rest of the Tor community). No, it was developed by Dingledine and others under contract with US Naval Research Lab before being released by that Lab under a free license. Further development occurred after it was released in a public project (most of whose funding over its life has come from...the US government.)
- astura 7y agoTor was developed at the Naval Research Laboratory and Roger Dingledine was under contract with and funded by the US Government. https://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/ https://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/
- sdinsn 7y agoNo, the NRL developed Tor.