As you might have heard, some onion services have been experiencing issues with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks over the past few years. In this post, we would like to present you with two options that we believe can provide a long-term defense to the problem while maintaining the usability and security of onion services.
Onionbalance is one of the standard ways onion service administrators can load balance onion services, but it didn't work for v3 onions. Until now.
Fixing the guard discovery problem in Tor itself is an immense project -- primarily because it involves many trade-offs between performance and scalability versus path security, which makes it very hard to pick good defaults for every onion service. Because of this, we have created an add-on that can be used in conjunction with a Tor onion service server or a Tor client that accesses Tor onion services.
We are hyped to present the next generation of onion services! We've been working on this project non-stop for the past 4 years and we officially launched it two weeks ago by publishing our first alpha releases. All in all, the new system is a well needed improvement that fixes many shortcomings of the old design, and builds a solid foundation for future onion work.
The Tor network team is a small team responsible for developing the core Tor daemon. We're...
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During the month of December, we're highlighting other organizations and projects that rely on...
During the month of December, we're highlighting other organizations and projects that rely on...
During the month of December, we're highlighting other organizations and projects that rely on...
Hello, This blog post is the first part of the Cooking with Onions series which aims to...