Favorite Hello! We are very happy to tell you that the Tor meeting in Berlin is currently underway! During the past days we’ve been busy discussing the future of Tor as an organization and designing the protocols and features that we want to see in the future. We would like to inform you that tomorrow…
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Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is released
Favorite Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to Tor’s callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features. This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover 39.40% of the code, and…
Tor Browser 5.0.3 is released
Favorite A new stable release for Tor Browser is available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory. This release features important security updates to Firefox. We fixed a number of regressions from our switch to ESR 38 back in August and reduced keyboard layout fingerprinting to mention just some highlights.…
Tor Browser 5.5a3 is released
Favorite A new alpha Tor Browser release is available for download in the 5.5a3 distribution directory and on the alpha download page. This release features important security updates to Firefox. Beginning with this alpha version Tor Browser is available in Japanese as well. In addition to that it contains usability improvements for our font fingerprinting…
Learning more about the GFW’s active probing system
Favorite This blog post is also available in Chinese, translated by our friends from GreatFire.org. Roya, David, Nick, nweaver, Vern, and I just finished a research project in which we revisited the Great Firewall of China’s (GFW) active probing system. This system was brought to life several years ago to reactively probe and block circumvention…
Tor Weekly News — September 10th, 2015
Favorite Welcome to the thirty-fifth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community. Introducing the tor-teachers list Just as the the Tor network itself grows and evolves through the efforts of volunteer relay operators in numerous countries, information about how and why users should make…
Tor Weekly News — September 4th, 2015
Favorite Welcome to the thirty-fourth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community. Tor Browser 5.0.2 and 5.5a2 are out The Tor Browser team announced new stable and alpha releases of the privacy-preserving web browser. Version 5.0.2 fixes a bug that was causing the browser’s…
Tor Weekly News — August 30th, 2015
Favorite Welcome to the thirty-third issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community. Hash visualizations to protect against onion phishing Unlike URLs on the non-private web, the .onion addresses used by Tor hidden services are not handed out by any central authority — instead, they…
Tor Browser 5.5a2 is released
Favorite A new release for the alpha Tor Browser is available for download in the 5.5a2 distribution directory and on the alpha download page. This release features important security updates to Firefox. Additionally, we included the crash bug fix that was already available in the stable series and a small fix for Unity and Gnome…
Tor Browser 5.0.2 is released
Favorite A new release for the stable Tor Browser is available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory. This release features important security updates to Firefox. Additionally, we updated the NoScript version we ship and included a small fix for Unity and Gnome users on Linux. Here is the complete…