Raw Package Information
Package: tor
Version: 0.4.8.21-1~plucky+1
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
Installed-Size: 4142
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libevent-2.1-7t64 (>= 2.1.8-stable), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libseccomp2 (>= 0.0.0~20120605), libssl3t64 (>= 3.0.0), libsystemd0, libzstd1 (>= 1.5.5), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), adduser, lsb-base
Recommends: logrotate, tor-geoipdb, torsocks
Suggests: mixmaster, torbrowser-launcher, socat, apparmor-utils, nyx, obfs4proxy
Conflicts: libssl0.9.8 (<< 0.9.8g-9)
Homepage: https://www.torproject.org/
Priority: optional
Section: net
Filename: pool/main/t/tor/tor_0.4.8.21-1~plucky+1_amd64.deb
Size: 1566406
SHA256: 7e7c841f354ff2b8a899f3eee08fe207dec04b2d1bb7c283d6c3aaf767818aec
SHA1: 1d333740500d7e42e259bc5ab14d8ce3aa4f4d91
MD5sum: f9c26fdbc2d746c1a26e2268d03880fb
Description: anonymizing overlay network for TCP
Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system.
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Clients choose a source-routed path through a set of relays, and
negotiate a "virtual circuit" through the network, in which each relay
knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing
down the circuit is decrypted at each relay, which reveals the
downstream relay.
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Basically, Tor provides a distributed network of relays. Users bounce
their TCP streams (web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc) around the relays, and
recipients, observers, and even the relays themselves have difficulty
learning which users connected to which destinations.
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This package enables only a Tor client by default, but it can also be
configured as a relay and/or a hidden service easily.
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Client applications can use the Tor network by connecting to the local
socks proxy interface provided by your Tor instance. If the application
itself does not come with socks support, you can use a socks client
such as torsocks.
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Note that Tor does no protocol cleaning on application traffic. There
is a danger that application protocols and associated programs can be
induced to reveal information about the user. Tor depends on Torbutton
and similar protocol cleaners to solve this problem. For best
protection when web surfing, the Tor Project recommends that you use
the Tor Browser Bundle, a standalone tarball that includes static
builds of Tor, Torbutton, and a modified Firefox that is patched to fix
a variety of privacy bugs.