Mozilla Research Call: Tune up Tor for Integration and Scale

by gaba | May 8, 2019

What alternative protocol architectures and route selection protocols would offer acceptable gains in Tor performance? Would they preserve Tor properties? Is it possible to improve Tor performance without changing protocols? Is it truly possible to deploy Tor at scale? And what would the full integration of Tor and Firefox look like? Those are some of the questions that Mozilla is calling researchers to answer in the privacy & security part of their Mozilla Research Grants program.

New Release: Tor 0.4.0.5

by nickm | May 3, 2019

After months of work, we have a new stable release series! If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.0.5 on the website. Packages should be available within the next several weeks, with a new Tor Browser likely later this month.

This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for long-term maintainability.

Google Season of Docs 2019: Help Tor Improve Our Documentation

by pili | April 23, 2019

We’re a small nonprofit organization that develops free and open source software used by millions around the world, and our community of contributors and users would greatly benefit from improved documentation.

Through Season of Docs, we want to collaborate with technical writers who can help us improve.

Ecuador: Free Ola Bini

by isabela | April 15, 2019

We at the Tor Project would like to express our deep concern regarding the well-being and the rights of Ola Bini.