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: APPEND_STRING() used a maximum buffer size lower than MAX_HTTP_HEADERS causing some User-Agent strings to be filtered out if the total size of the adjusted headers exceeded 1024 bytes
· corrected: buffer size was not adjusted when appending accepted encodings (thanks to anonymous for reporting this error on sf.net)
· the crash notification message box shows application name and version (requested by Adem0x on sf.net)
· if AdvOR is started from a read-only location or file creation fails when writing a crash report, a file save dialog will ask for another location for AdvOR-crash.txt (requested by Adem0x on sf.net)
· to ease error reporting, the crash report will only have information about overwritten sentinels instead of having information about all allocated memory