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Major changes are underway in the Tor Project, the Tor Network, and the Tor community. We want to tell you details and introduce the growing Tor community to the larger world.

The State of the Onion covers technical, social, economic, political, and cultural issues pertaining to anonymity, the Tor Project, and the ecosystem surrounding our communities. Important topics include the following issues: - Our new mission statement and code of conduct - An introduction to our „Vegas Plan“ - Introducing a huge set of developers and users working on enabling your anonymity - An overview of the kinds of projects and groups involved with Tor - A summary and fact checking of important media coverage - A history lesson about the Tor network

Other people: Jacob Mike Perry Shari Steele Alison Macrina

We'll update you on what's going on with Tor onion services, aka Tor hidden services.

In the past, onion services were mostly run by people who wanted to set up a website that somebody else wanted to shut down. Increasingly, people are recognizing that onion services are much more broadly useful: they are about providing more security to users, not hiding websites. Over the last year or so, Facebook set up an onion service to let their users reach Facebook more securely, the IETF officially designated '.onion' as a reserved domain, we've been talking to the "Let's Encrypt" folks about giving an onion address to every website, some neat new apps are coming out that use onion services (like decentralized chat), and more. We also have some actual stats on hidden services: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/some-statistics-about-onions At the same time, we've been working on next-generation onion services. We'll explain why they greatly improve both security and scalability.

Other people: David Goulet asn