4 Maintainer: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
5 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), libssl-dev, dpatch, zlib1g-dev, libevent-dev (>= 1.1), texlive-base-bin, texlive-latex-base, texlive-fonts-recommended, transfig, ghostscript, binutils (>= 2.14.90.0.7)
6 Standards-Version: 3.8.1
7 Homepage: https://www.torproject.org/
11 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, adduser, tsocks
12 Conflicts: libssl0.9.8 (<< 0.9.8g-9)
13 Recommends: privoxy | polipo (>= 1), socat, logrotate, tor-geoipdb
14 Suggests: mixmaster, mixminion, anon-proxy
15 Description: anonymizing overlay network for TCP
16 Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system which
17 addresses many flaws in the original onion routing design.
19 In brief, Onion Routing is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication
20 service. Users choose a source-routed path through a set of nodes, and
21 negotiate a "virtual circuit" through the network, in which each node
22 knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down
23 the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node, which reveals
26 Basically Tor provides a distributed network of servers ("onion
27 routers"). Users bounce their tcp streams (web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc)
28 around the routers, and recipients, observers, and even the routers
29 themselves have difficulty tracking the source of the stream.
31 Note that Tor does no protocol cleaning. That means there is a danger that
32 application protocols and associated programs can be induced to reveal
33 information about the initiator. Tor depends on Privoxy and similar protocol
34 cleaners to solve this problem.
36 Client applications can use the Tor network by connecting to the local
37 onion proxy. If the application itself does not come with socks support
38 you can use a socks client such as tsocks. Some web browsers like mozilla
39 and web proxies like privoxy come with socks support, so you don't need an
40 extra socks client if you want to use Tor with them.
42 This package enables only the onion proxy by default, but it can be configured
43 as a relay (server) node.
45 Remember that this is development code -- don't rely on the current Tor
46 network if you really need strong anonymity.
48 The latest information can be found at https://www.torproject.org/, or on the
49 mailing lists, archived at http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ or
50 http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/.
54 Depends: tor (= ${binary:Version})
58 Description: debugging symbols for Tor
59 This package provides the debugging symbols for Tor, The Onion Router.
60 Those symbols allow your debugger to assign names to your backtraces, which
61 makes it somewhat easier to interpret core dumps.
66 Depends: tor (>= ${source:Version})
67 Description: geoIP database for Tor
68 This package provides a geoIP database for Tor, i.e. it maps IPv4 addresses
71 Bridges (special Tor relays that aren't listed in the main Tor directory) use
72 this information to report which countries they get access from. This allows
73 the Tor network operators to learn if certain countries started blocking