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-[This file is obsolete. Check out the online FAQ at the wiki
+This file is obsolete. Check out the online FAQ at the wiki
 for more accurate and complete questions and answers:
 http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ
 
-The Onion Routing (TOR) Frequently Asked Questions
---------------------------------------------------
-
-1. General.
-
-1.1. What is Tor?
-
-Tor is an implementation of version 2 of Onion Routing.
-Go read the tor-design.pdf for the details.
-
-In brief, Onion Routing is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication
-service. Users choose a source-routed path through a set of nodes, and
-negotiate a "virtual circuit" through the network, in which each node
-knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down
-the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node, which reveals
-the downstream node.
-
-Basically Tor provides a distributed network of servers ("onion
-routers"). Users bounce their tcp streams (web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc)
-around the routers, and recipients, observers, and even the routers
-themselves have difficulty tracking the source of the stream.
-
-1.2. Why's it called Tor?
-
-Because Tor is the onion routing system. I kept telling people I was
-working on onion routing, and they said "Neat. Which one?" Even if onion
-routing has become a standard household term, this is the actual onion
-routing project, started out of the Naval Research Lab.
-
-(Theories about recursive acronyms are ok too. It's also got a fine
-translation into German.)
-
-1.3 Is there a backdoor in Tor?
-
-Not right now, but if this answer changes we probably won't be allowed
-to tell you. You should always check the source (or at least the diffs
-since the last release) for suspicious things; and if we don't give you
-source, that's a sure sign something funny could be going on.
-
-2. Compiling and installing.
-
-[Read the README file for now; check back here once we've got packages/etc
-for you.]
-
-
-3. Running Tor.
-
-3.1. What kind of server should I run?
-
-The same executable functions as both client and server, depending on
-which ports are specified in the configuration file. You can specify:
-* SocksPort: client applications (eg privoxy, Mozilla) can speak socks to
-  this port.
-* ORPort: other onion routers connect to this port
-* DirPort: onion proxies and onion routers speak http to this port, to
-  pull down a directory of which nodes are currently available.
-
-3.2. So I can just run a full onion router and join the network?
-
-No. Users should run just an onion proxy. If you have sufficient
-bandwidth (>= 1MBit both ways) you can consider running a router,
-but just to use the network you don't need to.  Note that you won't
-be used by clients much unless you are verified properly by the
-directory administrators (see next question).
-
-3.3. How do I join the network then?
-
-If you just want to use the onion routing network, you can run a proxy
-and you're all set. If you want to run a router, you can do so by
-enabling ORPort, which will make your router get used for some things.
-However, in order to get used for everything, you must become a "verified"
-router.  Simply convince the directory server operators (mail
-tor-ops at freehaven.net) that you have a stable machine with enough bandwidth.
-From there, the operators add you to the directory, which propagates out
-to the rest of the network. All nodes will know about you within a half
-hour.  Once you are verified clients will pick you as entry and exit nodes.
-
-3.4. Can I just set DirPort and be a directory server?
-
-If you are an onion router and set DirPort then you will serve the
-directory to other clients.  This takes some load off the authoritative
-dirservers.  Your node will not generate its own directory, instead
-it will provide the one it fetched from an authoritative dirserver.
-
-If you run a very reliable node, you plan to be around for a long time,
-and you want to spend some time ensuring that router operators do in
-fact have enough bandwidth and stable machines, we may want you to run
-an authoritative directory server too. We must manually add you to the
-'dirservers' file that's part of the distribution; users will only know
-about you when they upgrade to a new version.
-
-
-4. Development.
-
-4.1. Who's doing this?
-
-4.2. Can I help?
-
-4.3. I've got a bug.
-
-
-5. Anonymity.
-
-5.1. So I'm totally anonymous if I use Tor?
-
-
-
-5.2. Where can I learn more about anonymity?
-
-5.3. What attacks remain against onion routing?
-
-
-
-6. Comparison to related projects.
-
-6.1. Onion Routing.
-
-Tor *is* onion routing.
-
-6.2. Freedom.
-
-
-7. Protocol and application support.
-
-7.1. http? ftp? udp? socks? mozilla?
-
-
-

