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, the Debian project and the Tor Project are enabling Tor

Around midnight on August 4th we were notified by a few people that a large number of hidden service addresses have disappeared from the Tor Network.

We're excited to announce that a group of students from Wesleyan has created a new TorStatus website written in Python.