Tor Project increases users' security and privacy with the new Onion generation

Tor Project is bringing big changes to its infrastructure to increase security and privacy for users on the onion network.

This free online anonymous network has been a useful tool for those who want to browse anonymously, the onion service that provides networks in which encrypted websites will run anonymously.

However, the design and coding behind this service has become obsolete, making it more vulnerable and vulnerable. The Tor network has become such a potential target that even a buyer of zero-day vulnerabilities, Zerodium, is willing to pay $ 1 for Tor vulnerabilities.

Therefore, Tor Project has researched to update its system in the past few years.

Now, Tor Project announces the release of Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha to support new generation onion services, bring the most modern encryption algorithms and improve general authentication on web services. .

The directory system was also completely redesigned to 'prevent information leakage and reduce surface attacks in general', said George Kadianakis from the Tor Project.

Tor Project increases users' security and privacy with the new Onion generation Picture 1
The new generation of onion will provide better security

The alpha version also fixes some recent security flaws in the protocol, including malicious nodes (network nodes, forwarding servers) that can know about the network and reduce anonymity.

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Tor Project also said that there will be some security features in the next update, making it difficult for an attacker to identify Tor users.

'When the current code is more stable, we will add new features such as offiline service key, advanced client authentication, port control interface, improved security algorithms, security name system, parameters, support for blockchain, AI logic, VR interface, routing with mixed latency . ', Tor Project said.

The application of new onion services will still support the current onion network, but will soon replace the whole and become the default. Interested readers can read the full version of this alpha release here.https://blog.torproject.org/tor-0321-alpha-released-support-next-gen-onion-services-and-kist-scheduler