Advanced Onion Router is designed to be a client for OR network and intended to be an improved alternative for Tor+Vidalia+Privoxy bundle for Windows users. It is able to "force" a program and its plugins to use the Tor proxy regardless of its configured proxy settings.
Onion Routing is a distributed overlay network designed to anonymize TCP-based applications like web browsing, secure shell, and instant messaging. Clients choose a path through the network and build a circuit, in which each node (or “onion router” or “OR”) in the path knows its predecessor and successor, but no other nodes in the circuit. Traffic flows down the circuit in fixed-size cells, which are unwrapped by a
symmetric key at each node (like the layers of an onion) and relayed downstream.
What's New in This Release:
· corrected: when changing server descriptor types, AdvOR could try to free a buffer that was already freed
· the csv2asm program now approximates GeoIP's "A1" fake country to a neighboring IP range's country that has the same AS path as the blacklisted IP range
· the "A1" country that has IP ranges blacklisted by MaxMind is shown using the approximated country followed by an asterisk in node selection dialogs and in the "OR network" dialog
· country bans and the restriction to build circuits with IPs from different countries are verified using the approximated country instead of GeoIP's fake "A1" country (this solves a security problem where a circuit like US-DE-A1 where A1=US could had been built)
· router selection dialogs no longer display "Anonymous Proxy" as a valid country
· new option on the "Banned routers" page: "Do not use exits that were blacklisted by MaxMind's GeoIP" that can be enabled when country restrictions enforced by some websites can't be bypassed because the website ...