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The history of Tor - Tor Browser Tutorial
From the course: Exploring Tor and the Dark Web
The history of Tor
- [Instructor] With all of the shady uses of Tor, you could easily be forgiven for assuming that the dark web is the brainchild of an internet criminal conspiracy, but you couldn't be further from the truth. The reality is that onion routing, the cornerstone technology that makes the dark web possible, was actually developed in a US government laboratory. A team of mathematicians and computer scientists first created this concept in the 1990s at the US Naval Research Laboratory as a technique for protecting government communications. One of those scientists, Paul Syverson, went on to develop a prototype of the Tor browser with several colleagues, and the Naval Research Laboratory released their code under a free license in 2002, launching Tor into the public sphere. After this initial development funding by the Navy, the Electronic Frontier Foundation began contributing financial support for Tor development efforts in 2004. As Tor took off, it became necessary to create its own…
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