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Re: [tor-talk] ATOMIC BANJO and LEVITATION used by CSE



Paul Syverson wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:24:18AM -0800, spencerone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Krishna,

krishna e bera keb at cyblings.on.ca:
>Tor (not an uppercased acronym)
>

Why?


See p. 129 of http://www.acsac.org/2011/program/keynotes/syverson.pdf
also
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#WhyCalledTor

aloha,
Paul

(Note, the German meaning of 'Tor' mentioned in the FAQ is discussed in the "A Peel of Onion" paper, the Turkish meaning is apparently a fine-meshed net.)

It also wouldn't be very fair to call it TOR as there's more than one onion routing project out there ;-)

~Griffin

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