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> The leaks show the NSA had a hard time exploiting the Tor network. It's much more thought-out than this project, but in the beginning it too was just hacked t
by thirsteh 13y ago
> The leaks show the NSA had a hard time exploiting the Tor network. It's much more thought-out than this project, but in the beginning it too was just hacked together by a few clever people.
At the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
(By any measure, most innovation is done by single persons or small teams, but Tor is an interesting example seeing as it was developed by the U.S. government itself.)
- eliteraspberrie 13y agoTor was not developed by the US government. Tor started as a student project of Matej Pfajfar at the University of Cambridge. Then Roger Dingledine joined in 2002, then Nick Mathewson, Mike Perry, and many, many others. The NRL was interested in onion routing and funded the project, as did DARPA, and now the State Department. For more history of onion routing and Tor, see section 5 of Systems for Anonymous Communication: http://www.syverson.org/anonsurvey-fc.pdf http://www.syverson.org/anonsurvey-fc.pdf
- thirsteh 13y agoYeah, I shouldn't have said "at the NRL." The U.S. government sponsored the development of Tor and created onion routing.