How to stop the onion denial (of service)
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.
Onion Service version 2 deprecation timeline
From today (July 2nd, 2020), the Internet has around 16 months to migrate from onion services v2 to v3 once and for all.
Unveiling the new Tor Community portal
Today, we are officially launching our Community portal. This is part of our continuous effort to better organize all of our different content into portals. The Community portal contains six sections: Training, Outreach, Onion Services, Localization, User Research, and Relay Operations. It's about time that the Tor Project has a dedicated place to help you to help Tor!
Cooking with Onions: Reclaiming the Onionbalance
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.
Tor in the Media: 2019
In 2019, mainstream coverage of privacy wins and challenges increased, and with that, so did coverage of the Tor Project.
Reflections from Our Stockholm All Hands
Through partnership with our community and our community’s broader connections, we turned limited resources into a safe space to cultivate connections, collaboration, and progress toward the vision and values that we are all working towards at Tor.
Strength in Numbers: An Entire Ecosystem Relies on Tor
If the Tor Project, the Tor network, and Tor Browser were to disappear, what would happen? Not only would millions of global, daily users lose access to Tor’s software, but the diverse ecosystem of privacy, security, and anti-censorship applications that rely on the Tor network would cease to function.
Announcing the Vanguards Add-On for Onion Services
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.