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: the list with directory authorities was initialized with values from a read-only location
· corrected: address map association updates required a program restart
· corrected: when re-connecting to the OR network, listeners were sometimes delayed, causing ports to stay closed for up to 60 seconds
· corrected: the procedures that disconnect AdvOR from the OR network are now scheduled
· the procedures related to the "Associated addresses" page were moved to a separate file, dlg_addrmaps.c
· added the option to use browser's original User-Agent string; the option is available on the "HTTP headers" page as "Don't anonymize browser type"
· new option on the exit selection dialog: "Use only recent exits that are probably not blacklisted yet"; this option sets a filter for recent nodes that are not in blacklists that were not updated recently
· new page: "Bypass Tor blacklists" with options related to bypassing bans on websites that use blacklists to ban Tor and other proxies (dlg_bypassbl.c...