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> Tor was invented by the NSA Actually, Paul Syverson, Roger Dingledine, and Nick Mathewson orginated Tor, and Dr Syverson did the original onion routing work
by niels_olson 15y ago
> Tor was invented by the NSA
Actually, Paul Syverson, Roger Dingledine, and Nick Mathewson orginated Tor, and Dr Syverson did the original onion routing work at the Naval Research Lab.
https://www.torproject.org/about/corepeople.html.en https://www.torproject.org/about/corepeople.html.en
I don't recall seeing "NSA" anywhere on any their resumes, in their papers, etc.
Syverson has made it pretty clear Tor is not so good for serious security, eg, trying to evade nation-states. Evading nation-states is what PGP is for. Fundamentally, if you want a pizza, the pizza delivery guy has to know your address, no matter how many intermediate stops he makes. Also, have you used Tor? Speed is a major issue.