A new alpha series begins: Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is released
Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It includes numerous code...
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Tor 0.2.5.10 is released! (and Tor 0.2.3.x is deprecated)
Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series. It adds several new security...
New SSLv3 attack found: Disable SSLv3 in TorBrowser
Hi! It's a new month, so that means there's a new attack on TLS. This time, the attack is that...
Top changes in Tor since the 2004 design paper (Part 2)
This is part 2 of Nick Mathewson and Steven Murdoch's series on what has changed in Tor's design...
Top changes in Tor since the 2004 design paper (Part 1)
The main academic reference for Tor is "Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router" by Dingledine,...
Some thoughts on the CRIME attack
By this point, some people have started to ask me about the Rizzo and Duong's new CRIME attack...
Tor and the BEAST SSL attack
Today, Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong presented a new attack on TLS <= 1.0 at the Ekoparty...
IPv6 is the future, I hear
A while ago, I wrote up a description of what needs to be done to get Tor to be IPv6-compliant...
New OpenSSL vulnerability; Tor not affected
There's a new buffer overflow vulnerability in versions of OpenSSL from 0.9.8f through 0.9.8o,...
Some notes on progress with IOCP and Libevent
Hi! I recently wrote up a status report for the progress we're making on hacking Libevent, and I...