Tor, "onion routing", uses public open source from United States Intelligence Community:)
The core principle of Tor, "onion routing", was developed in the mid-1990s by U.S. Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson and computer scientists Michael Reed and David Goldschlag, with the purpose of protecting U.S. intelligence communications online. Onion routing was further developed by DARPA in 1997.[18][19][20]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_Research_Laboratory
United States Intelligence Community
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community

Russia offers $110,000 to crack Tor anonymous network.
Tor has been used by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28526021
In its 2013 financial statements, the Tor Project - a group of developers that maintain tools used to access Tor - confirmed that the US Department of Defense remained one its biggest backers.
https://www.torproject.org/about/findoc/2013-TorProject-FinancialStatements.pdf

Russia Reaches The Censorship Endgame: Banning VPNs, Tor And Web Proxies.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150213/10364630018/russia-reaches-censorship-endgame-banning-vpns-tor-web-proxies.shtml

Standard search engines intentionally do not index content from certain portions of the Internet. This content, which goes by many names, notably the “DeepWeb” and “DarkNet,” is accessible only with software like Tor, which allows users to access websites using the .onion host suffix anonymously, hiding their IP address. While there is nothing inherently criminal about the DeepWeb, it provides a forum for criminals to carry out illegal activities and trade illicit goods anonymously.

Chinese authorities try to disable Tor by blocking access to the “input” nodes Tor uses to connect users to websites. The government analyzes Web traffic to identify these (constantly-changing) nodes and then blocks them. Nevertheless, it’s possible to circumvent even these extensive blocking efforts. For example, there are tools to mask Tor traffic as other types of traffic, making it look like Skype data, for instance.

https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/02/05/russian-mp-wants-to-block-tor-without-the-courts

TOR explained for those not so familiary with Tor network and in an easy way.
A must see:)
The Tor Project, protecting online anonimity: Jacob Appelbaum at TEDxFlanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWeVYCcKXw

The "TOR" network is not as safe as people think if you do not follow the rules which are described when you use it . There are warnings that is you do not do certain things you can be seen by the authorities .

They have not and can't crack it as Jan has said , but they can tell if someone has or is using it even if they don't know exactly what or whom you are doing .

It took the cops about 3 years to catch the people behind the silk road (selling drugs on the net) and they did use some info gained from Tor network but they still had to use normal police ways to catch them , probbably following the money as many of the twits whom bought the drugs would have been to stupid and used there credit cards to pay for them .

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Yes Glenn. That's my very point.
The weakest link in cryptology are the humans who are trying to keep messages and transactions safe and don't follow the instructions given.
RTFM.
I would say most of the "cracked" messages are because of operators and amateur who didnt read TFM.
MH17 shot down by Russian BUKs in Ukraine is a VERY good example.

A nice little bump for the thread...

Hacking the Nazis - The women who worked there

A nice little bump for the thread...

Hacking the Nazis - The women who worked there

I saw a documentary about this story some months ago.
One of the ladys who where working in Bletchley Park at that time guided the TV team around the Place:)
"I was given one sentence, 'We are breaking German codes, end of story'."

It can't be such an amazing place that it took...

"Bourne is grateful that the work of the World War II code-breakers has so much recognition today, after years of being overlooked. Millions of pounds in funding from the National Lottery has allowed the huts around Bletchley Park to be restored and a visitor centre created."

...funds provided by gamblers to restore something that a grateful nation should have done.

It can't be such an amazing place that it took...

"Bourne is grateful that the work of the World War II code-breakers has so much recognition today, after years of being overlooked. Millions of pounds in funding from the National Lottery has allowed the huts around Bletchley Park to be restored and a visitor centre created."

...funds provided by gamblers to restore something that a grateful nation should have done.

So, is it not a great place or is your nation full of ungrateful people? Please, make your point clearer.

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It can't be such an amazing place that it took...

"Bourne is grateful that the work of the World War II code-breakers has so much recognition today, after years of being overlooked. Millions of pounds in funding from the National Lottery has allowed the huts around Bletchley Park to be restored and a visitor centre created."

...funds provided by gamblers to restore something that a grateful nation should have done.

Bellman Lottery was presented in 1971 by Swedish monetary lottery AB to celebrate the 200th anniversary of King Gustav III Institute of Nummerlotterie. It was named after the secretary of this number lottery, the poet Carl Michael Bellman. Nowadays lottery expended for the benefit of several types of scratch cards which together with the fact that monetary lottery ticket is still available.

Royal National Lottery was a Swedish state lottery that seemed 1771-1841 founded by King Gustav III's first reign.

The concept of numbers lottery, tantamount genuesiskt lottery, is the common name for a lottery where the playing within certain limits, make a bet on the numbers between 1 and 90. By drawing drawn five numbers winning numbers.

The Executive Board of the Royal Academy. Number Lottery consisted in the early 1800s by a chairman and three members. Otherwise, the staff consisted of about 70 people, including 50 extraordinarier. In addition to the office, including a secretary, an ombudsman and an office clerk, had numbers lottery five offices and a printing house. To the lottery were also a number of collectors - or commission - tied. It was the cellar master, kryddkramhandlare, pharmacists and the like. They had 5% commission for the first 333 riksdalerna, then 6%.

Lottery tickets were sold in the so-called main sales office in number lottery houses in the neighborhood Cepheus at Svartmangatan 9 or at one of the collectors. According to the Executive Board's decision in 1825 sold the tickets until Monday at 12 before the draw. Earlier ceased sales already on Saturday afternoon.

It was drawing 17 times a year. They were held from the beginning of Riddarholmen and the castle's outer courtyard. 1803 moved the draws to Castle Hill. Above Indebetouska house erected a small tribune adorned with Mrs. Fortuna's image, in which the lottery wheel prepared. A gloved boy from the audience were blindfolded draw five numbers from a raffle with a total of 90 numbers.

It can't be such an amazing place that it took...

"Bourne is grateful that the work of the World War II code-breakers has so much recognition today, after years of being overlooked. Millions of pounds in funding from the National Lottery has allowed the huts around Bletchley Park to be restored and a visitor centre created."

...funds provided by gamblers to restore something that a grateful nation should have done.

I do not believe to this day that many people realise what happened at Bletchely Park because so many of the people there kept their silence till death in some cases.

How could a "grateful nation" help restore the place when it was intentionally forgotten for 40 years. It is only now that people are starting to realise what happened. Slowly the place is being restored. I am 64 and was almost totally unaware of the true significance of Bletchely Park until only a few years ago.

The generation that was grateful without knowing it has mostly passed on and cannot offer anything.

Please do not run down something just because Chris S likes the place, find something to run down that is worthy of you very acid whit.

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Bernie is of course 100% correct. There are women in their 80's and 90's today who still refuse to speak about what they did, and many have passed on with their families never knowing what they did in the war. I would defy anyone to actually go there and not have their views changed. I saw it as it actually was during the war just 2 years after the publication of the details, and even then 35 years later, you almost felt that they had gone home for the day and would all be back tomorrow. It still has a lot of that atmosphere today.

Indeed:)
One of the ladys who where working in Bletchley Park at that time guided the TV team around the Place:)
"I was given one sentence, 'We are breaking German codes, end of story'."

How could a "grateful nation" help restore the place when it was intentionally forgotten for 40 years. It is only now that people are starting to realise what happened. Slowly the place is being restored. I am 64 and was almost totally unaware of the true significance of Bletchely Park until only a few years ago.

The generation that was grateful without knowing it has mostly passed on and cannot offer anything.

Please do not run down something just because Chris S likes the place, find something to run down that is worthy of you very acid whit.

1 That is sad. As pointed out earlier in this thread, I knew about it in 1976.

2 I love the place, it is astonishing that so many people kept that a secret, especially in light of society today with leaks, gossip & malicious rumours. It is surprising that people are taking note of what I say yet forget what they have posted...

...MY point is that Mr S has publicly ridiculed me on these boards for gambling, talk about hypocrisy!

How could a "grateful nation" help restore the place when it was intentionally forgotten for 40 years. It is only now that people are starting to realise what happened. Slowly the place is being restored. I am 64 and was almost totally unaware of the true significance of Bletchely Park until only a few years ago.

The generation that was grateful without knowing it has mostly passed on and cannot offer anything.

Please do not run down something just because Chris S likes the place, find something to run down that is worthy of you very acid whit.

1 That is sad. As pointed out earlier in this thread, I knew about it in 1976.

2 I love the place, it is astonishing that so many people kept that a secret, especially in light of society today with leaks, gossip & malicious rumours. It is surprising that people are taking note of what I say yet forget what they have posted...

...MY point is that Mr S has publicly ridiculed me on these boards for gambling, talk about hypocrisy!

You inferred that Bletchely Park "cant be such an amazing place" if it took gambling money to restore, in an effort to have another dig at Chris.

The Lottery has ensured that lots of money has gone to good causes and I do not believe the average person considers it heavy gambling.

I and I am sure others are totally fed up with both of you and your personal feud.

I don't care who thinks who started I believe as both of you are gown men it is time for it to stop.

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I don't care who thinks who started I believe as both of you are gown men it is time for it to stop.

+1. You are making jacka$$e$ of yourselves.

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I look good in a kilt, never tried a dress, haven't got the figure for it. :-)

I look good in a kilt, never tried a dress, haven't got the figure for it. :-)

I've been told I look pretty snazzy in a kilt.
And I luv the breeze...LOL.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Wonderful things happen while wearing a kilt...

...I'll leave you all to decode that :-)

And the Imitation Game was a rather fine movie.
Sad that such a profound mind chose to leave this earth at such s young age.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Interesting report showing the difficulties governments & businesses as well as individuals face.

Defending the last missing pixels

Undercover war online

A couple of good statements on this report which makes one wonder about all the issues being debated.

"A lot of cryptography isn't just about keeping things secret, a lot of it is about proving identity," says Bill Buchanan, professor of computing at Edinburgh Napier University. "There's a lot of naïveté about cryptography as to thinking it's just about keeping something safe on your disk."

"There are now so many ways that investigators can actually investigate someone who is suspected of committing a crime there isn't really a problem. This isn't going to shut the door." Good old-fashioned policing and follow-the-money are still the most effective ways of catching the bad guys."

A link for those that wish to use crypto currency's . You will need to download each Block chain Database for each type of wallet you use .

Be warned each wallet's data base is big eg: 13 gig plus

This means if you are limited in your downloads you may hit the limits .

Crypto Currency's Wallet Block Chain Data Bases Downloads

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