Re: [tor-talk] Historically speaking, what was the U.S. navy /military

[Mansour Moufid <mansourmoufid@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Alexandre Guillioud
<guillioud.alexandre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I had heard that the original use case were to protect their (US navy)
> ships against command center localisation through RF harvesting. The onion
> routing of the admiral commands through a few boats means enemmies can't
> detect which on is giving orders.

This is probably true.  They call it "network-centric warfare" generally.

For a navy, ship to ship radio uses much less power than ship to
satellite and one is not always above.  So a mesh is more discreet and
reliable.

Then there is the problem of encryption and key management, which
onion routing solves well.
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