How did Herbivore get started?
In late 2001, Emin Gün Sirer, Mark Robson and Milo Polte proposed CliqueNet, an anonymous communication system that partitions the global network into local anonymizing DC-Nets. The following summer, based on the divide-and-conquer approach advocated in CliqueNet, Sharad Goel began developing Herbivore. Coincidentally, all four researchers were at Cornell University and started collaborating on Herbivore later that year.
