-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-0934 2010-01-22 22:12:18 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : tor Product : Fedora 12 Version : 0.2.1.22 Release : 1200.fc12 URL : http://tor.eff.org Summary : Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (The onion router) Description : Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each relay, which reveals the downstream relay. Warnings: Tor does no protocol cleaning. That means there is a danger that application protocols and associated programs can be induced to reveal information about the initiator. Tor depends on Privoxy and similar protocol cleaners to solve this problem. This is alpha code, and is even more likely than released code to have anonymity-spoiling bugs. The present network is very small -- this further reduces the strength of the anonymity provided. Tor is not presently suitable for high-stakes anonymity. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jan 21 2010 Enrico Scholz <[email protected]> - 0.2.1.22-1200 - updated to 0.2.1.22 * Thu Dec 31 2009 Enrico Scholz <[email protected]> - 0.2.1.21-1200 - updated to 0.2.1.21 * Sat Nov 14 2009 Enrico Scholz <[email protected]> - 0.2.1.20-1200 - updated URLs (#532373) - removed (inactive) update mechanism for GeoIP data; this might reduce anonimity (#532373) - use the pidfile at various places in the LSB initscript to operate on the correct process (#532373) - set a higher 'nofile' limit in the upstart initscript to allow fast relays; LSB users will have to add a 'ulimit -n' into /etc/sysconfig/tor to get a similar effect (#532373) - let the LSB initscript wait until process exits within a certain time; this fixes shutdown/restart problems when working as a server (#532373) - fixed initng related typo in logrotate script (#532373) - removed <linux/netfilter_ipv4.h> hack; it is fixed upstream and/or in the kernel sources - use %postun, not %post as a -upstart scriptlet and send INT, not TERM signal to stop/restart daemon * Sun Oct 25 2009 Enrico Scholz <[email protected]> - 0.2.1.20-1 - updated to 0.2.1.20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update tor' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
