Open Source Tor Network a PCWorld Top 100 for 2005.

The article reports on the popularity of the open source Tor router in the United States. In the July 2005 issue of "Cipher," the electronic newsletter of the Technical Committee on Security & Privacy, security researcher Jason Holt talks about the popularity of the Tor router. According to Holt, the Tor router works by creating an onion of envelopes containing session keys and next-hop information for a Transmission Control Protocol stream. He estimates that about 30,000 clients currently use the 200 Tor servers around the world. The device was named in "PCWorld" periodical's 2005 list as one of the best 100 computer products.