Favorite Tor Browser 11.5.5 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. Tor Browser 11.5.5 backports the following security updates from Firefox ESR 102.4 to to Firefox ESR 91.13 on Windows, macOS and Linux: CVE-2022-40674: libexpat before 2.4.9 has a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c CVE-2022-42927:…
Favorite Today, October 21, 2022, is the second Global Encryption Day, organized by the Global Encryption Coalition, of which the Tor Project is a member. Global Encryption Day is an opportunity for businesses, civil society organizations, technologists, and millions of Internet users worldwide to highlight why encryption matters and to advocate for its advancement and…
Favorite Every year, the Tor Project (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) holds a fundraiser where we ask for your support. (If you’re a Tor fan, you probably know that by now!) And every year, we unveil new gifts and a slogan that highlight our values and the importance of Tor. This year, we’re highlighting three positive forces…
Favorite Tor Browser 11.5.4 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. Our Android release follows our alpha branch to the ESR 102 release train. Please see the 12.0a2 blog post for details. Tor Browser 11.5.4 backports the following security updates from Firefox ESR 102.3 to to Firefox…
Favorite Arti is our ongoing project to create an next-generation Tor client in Rust. Last month, we released Arti 1.0.0. Now we’re announcing the next release in its series, Arti 1.0.1. The last month, our team’s time has been filled with company meetings, vacations, COVID recovery, groundwork for anticensorship features, and followup from Arti 1.0.0.…
Favorite Over the last couple of weeks, friends of the Tor Project have been raising questions about how Tor Project thinks of conflicts of interest and its board members, in light of the reporting from Motherboard about Team Cymru. I understand why folks would have questions, and so I want to write a bit about…
Favorite Tor Browser 12.0a3 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. Tor Browser 12.0a3 updates Firefox on Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux to 102.3.0esr. We use this opportunity to update various other components of Tor Browser as well : NoScript 11.4.11 This version includes important security updates…
Favorite Tor Browser 12.0a2 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This marks our first alpha on the Firefox ESR 102 series, and our first Android released based on the Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) series. In the past, our Tor Browser for Android releases have been…
Favorite This is a guest post by Peter Story. This blog post summarizes research presented at The Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in July 2022. The research was conducted by a team from Clark University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Michigan, and the University of Maryland. As part of our research, we used an experiment to…
Favorite Back in 2020, we started work on a new implementation of the Tor protocols in the Rust programming language. Now we believe it’s ready for wider use. In this blog post, we’ll tell you more about the history of the Arti project, where it is now, and where it will go next. Background: Why…
