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Reword DESCRIPTION in tor.1.txt
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Reword the DESCRIPTION section of tor.1.txt.

Based on a patch by Swati Thacker.  Part of ticket 32277.
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tlyu committed Oct 29, 2019
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DESCRIPTION
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Tor is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication
service. Users choose a source-routed path through a set of nodes, and
negotiate a "virtual circuit" through the network, in which each node
knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down
the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node, which reveals
the downstream node. +

Basically, Tor provides a distributed network of servers or relays ("onion routers").
Users bounce their TCP streams -- web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc. -- around the
network, and recipients, observers, and even the relays themselves have
difficulty tracking the source of the stream.

By default, **tor** will act as a client only. To help the network
by providing bandwidth as a relay, change the **ORPort** configuration
option -- see below. Please also consult the documentation on the Tor
Project's website.

Tor is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Users
choose a source-routed path through a set of nodes, and negotiate a
"virtual circuit" through the network. Each node in a virtual circuit
knows its predecessor and successor nodes, but no other nodes. Traffic
flowing down the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node,
which reveals the downstream node. +

Basically, Tor provides a distributed network of servers or relays
("onion routers"). Users bounce their TCP streams, including web
traffic, ftp, ssh, etc., around the network, so that recipients,
observers, and even the relays themselves have difficulty tracking the
source of the stream.

[NOTE]
By default, **tor** acts as a client only. To help the network by
providing bandwidth as a relay, change the **ORPort** configuration
option as mentioned below. Please also consult the documentation on
the Tor Project's website.

COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
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