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The history of Tor - Tor Browser Tutorial
From the course: Tor and the Dark Web: Exploring the Basics
The history of Tor
- [Narrator] With of all the shady uses of Tor, you could easily be forgiven for assuming that the dark web is the brainchild of an internet criminal conspiracy. 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. They were using it as a technique for protecting government communications. One of those scientists, Paul Syverson, went on to develop a prototype of the Tor browser, and the Naval Research Laboratory released his code under a free license in 2004, launching Tor into the public domain. After this initial development effort by the Navy, the Electronic Frontier Foundation began contributing financial support for Tor development efforts in 2004. And as Tor took off, it became necessary to create its own organization…
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