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• Research debt items: 3
• Last verified: 2026-06-19

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Tor Project

Summary

Tor Project is a nonprofit organization documented in OIR from official Tor Project pages about privacy and onion routing technology.

Verified Facts

• The Tor Project maintains an official contact page at https://www.torproject.org/about/contact/.
• The Tor Project maintains an official history page at https://www.torproject.org/about/history/.
• The official history page states that The Tor Project, Inc. became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2006.
• The official history page states that onion routing research began in the mid-1990s and that "Tor" stood for The Onion Routing.

Historical Context

Historical context has not yet been drafted beyond the summary on the official history page.

Analysis

Analysis has not yet been drafted. Future work should add primary research sources for onion routing design and deployment.

Relationships

• ORG-TOR-PROJECT cites SRC-TOR-PROJECT-CONTACT.
• ORG-TOR-PROJECT cites SRC-TOR-PROJECT-HISTORY.
• ORG-TOR-PROJECT related_to TOPIC-ONION-ROUTING.

Sources

• SRC-TOR-PROJECT-CONTACT: Tor Project Contact Page.
• SRC-TOR-PROJECT-HISTORY: Tor Project History Page.

Research Debt

• Add primary research papers on onion routing.
• Add independent sources for technical work and governance.
• Create a separate contact record only after outreach use requirements are defined.