From: Paul Syverson Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 13:49:16 +0000 (+0000) Subject: stab at an opening paragraph X-Git-Tag: tor-0.1.0.1-rc~303 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7e1d8002f6a96f91f0b495346fef6fb4051421a0;p=thirdparty%2Ftor.git stab at an opening paragraph svn:r3569 --- diff --git a/doc/design-paper/challenges.tex b/doc/design-paper/challenges.tex index 5cc8ede51c..bee744bef1 100644 --- a/doc/design-paper/challenges.tex +++ b/doc/design-paper/challenges.tex @@ -42,8 +42,18 @@ scalable network. \section{Introduction} -Tor is a low-latency anonymous communication overlay network designed -to be practical and usable for protecting TCP streams over the +Anonymous communication is full of surprises. In this paper we will +tell you about some of them. We will describe the challenges arising +from our experiences with deploying, Tor, a low-latency anonymous general +purpose communication system. We will discuss some of the difficulties +we have experienced, how we have met them or, when we have some idea, +how we plan to meet them. We will also discuss some tough open +problems that have not given us any trouble in our current deployment. +We will describe both those future challenges that we intend to and +those that we have decided not to explore and why. + +Tor is an overlay network, designed +to be practical and usable, for protecting TCP streams over the Internet~\cite{tor-design}. We have been operating a publicly deployed Tor network since October 2003 that has grown to over a hundred volunteer nodes and sometimes as much as 80 megabits of average traffic per second.