I wouldn't really consider Tor an amateur libtech product since the basics of the underlying technology (onion routing) was developed by the US Navy. Here's th

I wouldn't really consider Tor an amateur libtech product since the basics of the underlying technology (onion routing) was developed by the US Navy. Here's the original patent from 1998: http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=6266704.PN.&OS=PN/6266704&RS=PN/6266704 http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=...