On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Alexandre Guillioud <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had heard that the original use case were to protect their (US navy) > ships against command center localisation through RF harvesting. The onion > routing of the admiral commands through a few boats means enemmies can't > detect which on is giving orders. This is probably true. They call it "network-centric warfare" generally. For a navy, ship to ship radio uses much less power than ship to satellite and one is not always above. So a mesh is more discreet and reliable. Then there is the problem of encryption and key management, which onion routing solves well. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
