this just happened to pop into my head, and maybe the subject has been brought up before but I have not seen such a discussion. How about providing a lite version of Tor, or maybe making it possible with a config file. It strikes me that not all of us who want to use Tor need the heavy-duty encrytion, indeed some just want privacy from persons running sniffers on cable networks and such. Just lightweight encryption with a regenerated key every so often would become cost prohibitive for the average snoop. This would increase network performance also I would think.
