On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:47:17AM +0200, renke@mobtm.com wrote:
Hi,
The counterpart we need to contribute is a letter by our lawyer and favorably a letter from EFF or some other bigger organization guaranteeing Tor is what it is and we as client do not try to fool them.
as the US government sponsored (parts of) the Tor development - what about giving them US military research papers about the Tor network?
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a465464.pdf is one of them, co-authored by a Navy researcher and performed by the Naval Research Laboratory.
Not merely sponsored: I created Tor along with Roger and Nick, and I invented the underlying onion routing technology years earlier with David Goldschlag and Mike Reed. All of this was done under NRL projects with funding we received from various sponsors. I have no idea what is legally relevant for this, but it might also be useful to point them at ExoneraTor https://exonerator.torproject.org/ which was designed after interactions with law enforcement indicated that such a tool would be useful for them.
aloha, Paul