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Where did Tor come from, again?

• lucb1e 4y ago
  "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (Not sure a rhetorical question to make some vague accusation counts as a substantive comment)
  • ziddoap 4y ago
    It's not a "vague accusation", onion routing was developed by the US Naval Research Academy ("NRL", a 3 letter government agency). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)#History for more detail.
    • lucb1e 4y ago
      The vague accusation is that because "onion routing"[1] has roots in the military, it must have a backdoor that we haven't uncovered in decades. If the person had posted this Wikipedia link with the info you mentioned, for example, I wouldn't have thought it unsubstantial per the guidelines (even if the claim/accusation itself is unsubstantiated by the evidence, that's a difference of opinion and not a guidelines thing). [1] Not the cryptography, not even the code implementation, but just the general concept: having a message packed in several layers of encryption such that intermediate routers don't know the contents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing
    • wolverine876 4y ago
      The entire Internet has its roots in the US military, as does ASCII.
• jakear 4y ago
  Created by the US Navy and currently majorly funded by the US Department of State, for those unaware.