Tor2web
Original author(s) | Aaron Swartz, Virgil Griffith |
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Developer(s) | Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights |
Initial release | 24 October 2008[1] |
Final release | 3.2.0
/ 1 October 2019 |
Written in | Affero General Public License |
Website | www |
Tor2web (pronounced "Tor to Web") is a software project to allow
History
Tor is a network which enables people to use the Internet anonymously (though with known
The software developed by Swartz and Griffith is today considered version 1.0. Since then, it has been maintained and developed by Giovanni Pellerano from the Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights as part of the GlobaLeaks Project, with financial support from the Open Technology Fund. Version 2.0 was released in August 2011, and version 3.0 is in beta as of December 2014[update].[4]
Operation and security
Rather than typical
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Like Tor, Tor2web operates using servers run voluntarily by an open community of individuals and organizations.
Tor2web preserves the anonymity of content publishers but is not itself an anonymity tool and does not offer any protection to users beyond relaying data using
See also
References
- ^ a b Aaron, Swartz (24 October 2008). "In Defense of Anonymity". Raw Thought. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- ^ a b Zetter, Kim (12 December 2008). "New Service Makes Tor Anonymized Content Available to All". Wired. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ^ Cheng, Jacqui (15 December 2008). "tor2web brings anonymous Tor sites to the "regular" web". Ars Technica. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ^ Filastò, Arturo. "Tor2web 2.0 is live!". Seclists.