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: possible buffer overflow in GetConnInfo()
· the procedure initmemunits() was moved from dlg_connections.c to dlg_util.c
· new configuration option: IdentityAutoChange
· new option on the "Private identity" page: "Show a completion MessageBox"; this option can be used to disable the message box shown when the identity is changed (IdentityFlags)
· new option on the "Private identity" page: "Every [time_interval] change my IP|identity"; this option can be used to automatically change the exit IP or the identity at a specified time interval (IdentityFlags, IdentityAutoChange); when this option is enabled, next IP is selected according to the configured exit selection algorithm (details in the help file)
· geoip_c.h was updated with GeoIPCountryWhois.csv released on April 2nd; there are 169256 IP ranges having 455 ranges in the fake "A1" country; 451 ranges were approximated to real countries
· updated language strings: 3247, 3248, 3249, 3250, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3254, 3255, 3256, 3257, 325...