Fedora EPEL 5 Update: tor-0.2.1.19-3.el5

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0735
2009-10-26 16:39:44
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Name        : tor
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 0.2.1.19
Release     : 3.el5
URL         : http://tor.eff.org
Summary     : Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (The onion router)
Description :
Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system.

Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The
local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay
knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down
the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each relay, which reveals
the downstream relay.

Warnings: Tor does no protocol cleaning.  That means there is a danger
that application protocols and associated programs can be induced to
reveal information about the initiator. Tor depends on Privoxy and
similar protocol cleaners to solve this problem. This is alpha code,
and is even more likely than released code to have anonymity-spoiling
bugs. The present network is very small -- this further reduces the
strength of the anonymity provided. Tor is not presently suitable for
high-stakes anonymity.

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Update Information:

close 2 bugs, new version
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #515822 - tor startup claims "Group" config directive is obsolete and ignored
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515822
  [ 2 ] Bug #515652 - initscript installation fails on EL5 x86_64
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515652
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update tor' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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