[KLUG Members] Meeting 2005-08-23 - (Video) The Onion Router

[listserv at kalamazoolinux.org]

Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want
to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help
you secure your web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC,
SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides
a platform on which software developers can build new applications with
built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features. Instead of taking a
direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network
take a random pathway through several servers that cover your tracks so
no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or
where it's going. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, and even
the onion routers themselves to figure out who and where you are. Tor's
technology aims to provide Internet users with protection against
"traffic analysis," a form of network surveillance that threatens
personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and
relationships, and state security. Traffic analysis is used every day by
companies, governments, and individuals that want to keep track of where
people and organizations go and what they do on the Internet. Instead of
looking at the content of your communications, traffic analysis tracks
where your data goes and when, as well as how much is sent. Tor aims to
make traffic analysis more difficult by preventing eavesdroppers from
finding out where your communications are going online, and by letting
you decide whether to identify yourself when you communicate. Roger
Dingledine is a security and privacy researcher. While at MIT under
Professor Ron Rivest, he developed Free Haven, one of the early
peer-to-peer systems that emphasized resource management while retaining
anonymity for its users. Currently he consults for the US Navy to design
and develop systems for anonymity and traffic analysis resistance.
Recent work includes anonymous publishing and communication systems,
traffic analysis resistance, censorship resistance, attack resistance
for decentralized networks, and reputation. 

Our presenter:


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Coming to three meetings qualifies you as a full member of KLUG, 
meaning that you can participate in the process of making formal 
decisions, including voting for officers.

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The meeting is 7:00 PM THIS TUESDAY at:
The Kalamazoo Chamber of Commerce in beautiful downtown Kalamazoo.
Maps, directions and more info can be found on the KLUG web site:

    http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/

Everyone is welcome, and there is no cost to attend!

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