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

Griffin Boyce griffin at cryptolab.net
Thu Jan 29 20:07:09 UTC 2015


Paul Syverson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:24:18AM -0800, spencerone at openmailbox.org 
> 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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