Never let it be said that we don’t give you a choice of ways to interact with Tor data. This month, Damian Johnson, a long-time Tor volunteer, updated a tool that provides real-time information about your relay. Named for the Greek goddess of night, Nyx is a dead-simple tool with data on bandwidth use, connections, logs, and more.
We added a new directory authority last month, increasing the diversity and stability of the directory authority system. The latest authority, named “Bastet” after the ancient Egyptian goddess, is run by Tor contributor Stefani.
Today we’re launching our end-of-year crowdfunding campaign, “Powering Digital Resistance,” highlighting Tor’s work protecting essential human rights around the world. Donate today and Mozilla will match your donation!
The latest Tor alpha release included a new feature to address traffic congestion in the Tor network. The new algorithm —Kernel Informed Socket Transport (KIST)— prevents connections between Tor relays from becoming overwhelmed by changing how traffic is distributed throughout the Tor network.
We’re looking for technical people to come help us test next-gen onion services. They’ve been fully merged into tor-0.3.2.1-alpha, and the latest version of Tor Browser supports them. We're still in the testing phase, though -- keep an eye on this blog for the official launch.
This week, The Tor Project -- with support from the Open Technology Fund and HackerOne -- paid out $3,000 (the highest bounty) to a developer who reported a potential proxy bypass bug.
Next month in Montreal, Tor folks from around the world will be convening to discuss the future of Tor as an organization and designing the protocols and features that we want to see in the future. As part of this meeting, we’re also having two open hack days everyone is welcome to join.
Come along and meet other relay operators and hear the latest news from Tor. We’ll have T-shirts and stickers to kit out your devices.
We love releasing new features and giving talks about where the Tor Network is going next....
One of the most common questions we get about Tor is some variation of “Is it safe to use?” To...