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posted by martyb on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the fewer-information-'leeks'-have-a-'peel' dept.

0.3.2.x alpha releases of Tor support version 3 of the Tor Rendezvous Specification (onion services protocol):

We are hyped to present the next generation of onion services! We've been working on this project non-stop for the past 4 years and we officially launched it two weeks ago by publishing our first alpha releases.

The new addresses will be longer and harder to discover:

The Tor team has been working on the new onion technology for the past four years, which aims to increase the anonymity level for onion services. In the legacy onion system the network itself could be leveraged to learn about the onion addresses that were using it.

With the new onion system, the onion services are completely private. Only you, the owner of the onion, and those to whom you will disclose the address, will know about your onion service' address. Nobody outside of their tight private groups could discover certain onion addresses, unless one of the group members disclosed it to others.

Websites such as Facebook, ProPublica, and The New York Times will likely want their address to be known to the whole public, so this benefit will not apply to them.

The legacy addresses will continue to be supported for years, depending on how fast the community adopts the new addresses.

Technical specification.

Yesterday: Critical Tor Flaw Leaks Users' Real IP Address


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Thexalon on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:14PM (4 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:14PM (#594103)

    ^ It looks to me like realDonaldTrump just posted under the wrong account!

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:19PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:19PM (#594106) Journal

    I can only wish I had thought of the realDonaldTrump account first. So while I may look like it, sorry, nope.

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    • (Score: 5, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:29PM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:29PM (#594158) Homepage Journal

      Believe me, you don't want to be using my name without my permission. The Chinese did that, they were making Trump toilets and everything. Terrible toilets, not even gold. Although in China, they were the best. That's the best they had in China. But they used my name without asking. Without paying. I sued them and I won. Big time. I always, always sue and I always, always win.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @06:17PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @06:17PM (#594182)

      Hahaha, yeaaaah uh huuuuuuh

      • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Thursday November 09 2017, @12:40AM

        by JNCF (4317) on Thursday November 09 2017, @12:40AM (#594322) Journal

        I had the same thought as Thexalon at the beginning of that post, but by the end of it I had decided that DannyB is a different author than realDonaldTrump. The write very different, considering that they're parodying the same speaker. There is a specific user that I suspect may be realDonaldTrump, but I wouldn't bet money on it, and even if I knew who it was I wouldn't doxx them.