Bug Smash Fund, Year 2: Progress Since February 2021

Last August, we asked you to help us fundraise during our second annual Bug Smash Fund campaign. We want to share an update on some of the work that the second year of the Bug Smash Fund has made possible. Since 2019, we've marked 410 tickets with BugSmashFund. As of today, 373 of those tickets have been closed, and 37 of them are still in progress.

Announcing Arti, a pure-Rust Tor implementation

by nickm | July 08, 2021

Greetings!

Today I'm happy to announce a new era in Tor implementation.

Over the past year or so, we've been working on "Arti", a project to rewrite Tor in Rust. Thanks to funding from Zcash Open Major Grants (ZOMG), we can finally put the Arti project up in our priorities list, and devote more time to it.

Below I'll talk about why we're doing this project, what it means for Tor users and operators, where it's going in the future, and how people can help.