Paul Syverson writes: > Err no. That's exactly wrong. It is in fact "The Onion Routing".
Your explanation makes sense, and you're certainly in a much better position than I to know the history of the project's name. On the other hand, there are many references that seem to call it "The Onion Router", including Wikipedia and the Tor wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network) https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/ > "The Onion Router" would make no sense in any case. It would > imply that there was one amongst the c. 2K onion routers currently out > there carrying traffic that is the genuine article. I think it makes sense to call the _software_ "the onion router" and any individual node "an onion router" (akin to "the Apache web server" and "an Apache web server", "the Squid proxy" and "a Squid proxy"). -- Seth Schoen Staff Technologist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/ 454 Shotwell Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 1 415 436 9333 x107
