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 5.5a3 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…