On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 01:44:05PM -0800, Seth wrote: > On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:37:58 -0800, Paul Syverson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >The point was that there was a bunch of stuff we started doing at NRL > >in 1995 we called "onion routing" including what we eventually called > >Tor. Some people not at NRL designed, and in some cases built, other > >systems using the same onion routing principles (e.g. the Freedom > >Network that Zero Knowledge Systems ran c. 2000-2001, > > ZKS Freedom! ..blast from the past, I think I was one of the 50 people that > signed up for a paid subscription, it was way ahead of its time. Was always > suspicious of the timing of their shutdown right after 9/11.
Tinfoil hat brigade will probably not believe anything I say, but for the rest of you: I was talking to them about licensing the onion routing patent and other things right up until they shut the network down. I feel confident this was simply a business decision. Ian and/or Adam may care to say more (or not). aloha, Paul -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
