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: if no hibernation interval is set, hibernation state is no longer changed
· corrected: init_keys() could had been called twice, when the OR port number was changed
· corrected: fast hibernation state changes could had caused the main thread to be created twice
· corrected a memory leak in parse_request_headers()
· corrected an infinite loop that could had been caused by using "--select-exit" without specifying an exit node
· when updating the OR network, a failure to update the circuit tree due to insufficient system resources will cause a warning message to be shown, recommending a system restart
· the host banlist is now also checked when parsing HTTP headers to prevent a banned host from being used in an HTTP request sent to a server that is not banned
· the welcome message now displays 2 available download locations for AdvOR, SourceForge and SoftPedia (language string: 1248)
· new command line parameter: "--exec" that can be used to execute and intercept at startup a progr...