Blogs

By popular request, we've created http://archive.torproject.org/. It serves as an archive of all released versions of Tor since 2004. And as a repository of all relay descriptors and directory authority consensus files published since 2004.

This is the place to get current and past releases of:

• the Tor source code,
• Vidalia itself,
• vidalia bundles for Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X,
• our various rpm packages,
• the Tor Browser Bundle and Tor IM Browser Bundle,
• TorVM,
• published consensus files,
• published server descriptors,
• and, other Tor network related files like extra-info and statuses.

The files are offered via http://archive.torproject.org/, rsync (archive.torproject.org::), and hidden service, http://7ofilo7lqgiub36u.onion.

The package archive is around 20GB. The directory authority archive is around 23GB. We'll soon be listing mirrors of this site as well.

Enjoy.

Thanks to an anonymous donor for the working powerpc hardware, I was able to make 0.2.0.35, 0.2.1.17-rc, and Vidalia 0.1.15 packages on OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) this evening.

They are available in the usual places, such as https://torproject.org/download

Thanks for your patience.

I recently was invited to give a Tor talk at the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance. Who is NCFTA? They are a non-profit that

brings together local, state, and federal law enforcement, businesses, and academic institutions to functionally collaborate on cybercrime issues.

The Tor talk was given to around 30 people who either investigate or use Tor daily as part of their role at NCFTA. The talk lasted around 2 hours with many questions. A handful of people hung out afterwards while I showed them the internals of Tor Browser Bundle (which circumvented their firewall just fine ;) and the Incognito LiveCD.

All in all, it was a great visit to a bunch of smart people who need Tor to do their job safely.

I was invited to join a panel discussion on Iran and New Media hosted by the Center for International Media Assistance and the National Endowment for Democracy. The full 90 minute video is now online; as is my presentation.

The general overview of the panel is http://cima.ned.org/events/new-media-in-iran.html

The direct link to the video on Vimeo is http://www.vimeo.com/5496977

A number of press people talked to me afterwards, including Al-Jazeera. There were reporters from Xinhua and China Daily in the audience as well. These reporters paid close attention to anything I said about China.

I spoke about what I knew and generally tried to avoid starting international incidents. A few of my answers to questions rambled a bit.

All in all it was a great panel and I learned more about what goes on inside Iran from the different panelists.

Tor Browser Bundle 1.2.3 was released on July 8, 2009. It contains the following changes:

• Update Vidalia to 0.1.14
• Update Tor to 0.2.1.17-rc
• Update Pidgin to 2.5.8

TBB 1.2.3 was replaced by 1.2.4 on July 11, 2009 to include:

• Include libeay32.dll from OpenSSL 0.9.8k to make QT happy
• Update Vidalia to 0.1.15

TBB 1.2.4 is available at https://torproject.org/torbrowser.

Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
poorly.

The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
failure message (oops).

This is a release candidate! That means that we don't know of any
remaining show-stopping bugs, and 0.2.1.18 will be the new stable if
there are no problems. Please test it, and tell us about any problems
that you find.

https://www.torproject.org/download

Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-02
Major features: read more »

• Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
  

Updated Vidalia-bundle packages with Tor 0.2.0.35 are released. The only thing that's changed is the update of Vidalia from 0.1.14 to 0.1.15. You can retrieve the updated packages from https://www.torproject.org/easy-download

Vidalia 0.1.15 is released. It contains fixes for:

• Bump the minimum required Qt version to 4.3.0.
• Remove USE_QSSLSOCKET as a build option. If your Qt doesn't support !OpenSSL, then you don't get GeoIP lookups.
• Fix the TorPostFlight portion of the OS X bundle installer so it doesn't fail when installing Torbutton.
• Include libeay32.dll in the Windows installers.

It can be obtained at https://www.torproject.org/vidalia/