by pavel | November 7, 2024
Get ready for the 2024 recap of all things Tor: Our annual State of the Onion is less than a week away. It's our virtual two-day event where we share updates from our teams and the Tor community. As in previous years, we are organizing two streams one week apart. So please make sure to save the date for both days!
Save the Dates
Both events will be live-streamed and available for replay on our YouTube channel. Engage in the conversation on social media with the hashtag #StateOfTheOnion2024 or post questions and comments in the chat during the event.
Tor Project Day - November 13, 2024
Join us on Day 1 as the Tor Project's teams discuss their work over the past year, from major updates to incremental improvements to exciting new tools for fighting censorship and increasing network resilience. Here are some highlights:
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Onion Services Team - Better Access to Onions: Learn about tools like Onionspray---a plug-and-play kit to "onionize" websites---and our ongoing work with the Onion Service Ecosystem Portal to make Onion Services more accessible to everyone.
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Anti-Censorship Team - Strengthening Tor's Foundation: Find out more about how we're bolstering Tor's anti-censorship infrastructure, including what happened since launching Webtunnel, research on Snowflake, ensuring access to Tor with a new bridge distribution mechanism.
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Network Health Team - Measuring Onions: Get a download of what we're doing to make the user experience more consistent, faster, and safer by better distributing load across the network, according to relay capacity.
We'll also feature the Community Team's programs to promote Tor geographic relay diversity, the Application Team's learnings from over 15 years of developing Tor Browser, and much more.
Tor Community Day - November 20, 2024
On Day 2, we turn the spotlight to Tor's community and the wider ecosystem with updates from projects that are built on Tor. Here's what to expect:
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Guardian Project - Mobilize Your Onions: The Guardian Project will talk about features that make it easier for mobile devs to "onionize" their apps and services.
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Cwtch - Learn more about Cwtch, a Tor-based secure communication tool establishing surveillance resistant channels between people and their journey to a stable release. They'll talk about new features like hybrid groups and bot integration.
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And also featured for the first time, Hushline will showcase their encrypted messaging capabilities and how it supports whistleblower and journalist protection.
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Quiet will join us again to present updates on encryption and user privacy, among other things.
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As well as Ricochet-Refresh to talk about building private and secure p2p applications with Gosling.
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OONI will provide a 2024 in Review and look back at OONI's work measuring internet censorship worldwide, and their outlook for 2025.
See you there!
We couldn't do the work we're sharing at this year's State of the Onion without your support! This event is part of our year-end fundraising campaign. You can fund the Tor Project's work by making a donation today.
Right now, if you make a donation to Tor, your donation will be matched by a generous donor. That means if you donate $25, they will also donate $25 — effectively doubling your gift and raising $50 for our teams.
You can check out our previous State of the Onion streams on our YouTube channel or replay some of our other virtual events we've hosted earlier this year like the Postbox Launch and our event for Global Encryption Day on Distributed Trust.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.torproject.org/state-of-the-onion-2024