19 Dec
2011
19 Dec
'11
4:08 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Paul Syverson syverson@itd.nrl.navy.mil wrote:
Onions, perse, were never used in Tor (even though Tor's onion routing ;>)
As long as we're doing historical notes, let me amend that to "onions, per se, were never used in any *released version* of Tor." It looks like I implemented the backend for the onionskin-based circuit handshake back in May 2003 (svn revision 259, git commit 1eeb3f65fc), which predates any version of Tor we ever put out a public tarball for. So Tor *did* once use onions for circuit setup; just not any Tor that ever got a public release.
peace,
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Nick