The Tor Project

Anonymity, privacy, and anti-censorship software

Technologies
c, python, javascript, golang, browser extensions
Topics
security, privacy, research, anonymity, anti-censorship
Anonymity, privacy, and anti-censorship software

The Tor Project is a free-software non-profit project to build an anonymity toolkit used by individuals, companies, governments, and activists around the world. The Tor network has grown since its start in 2002 to several million active users pushing over 60 Gbps of traffic. The Tor Project has a staff of 20 developers, researchers, and advocates, plus several dozen volunteers who help out on a daily basis.

2016 Program

Successful Projects

Contributor
Vu Huy
Mentor
masomel, arlolra
Organization
The Tor Project
CONIKS for Tor Messenger
This project consists of two parts: a CONIKS server for key verification and a CONIKS client which integrates with the Tor Messenger client. The...
Contributor
zma
Mentor
Juha Nurmi
Organization
The Tor Project
Ahmia search engine for hidden services
Ahmia is a working search engine that indexes, searches, and catalogs content published on Tor Hidden Services. Furthermore, it is an environment to...
Contributor
amoghbl1
Mentor
n8fr8
Organization
The Tor Project
Orfox
Orfox, Tor browser for Android, requires a few updates that would help it move from beta to a release. I hope to achieve this this summer! Some of...
Contributor
segfault
Mentor
asn
Organization
The Tor Project
Tails Server
The Tails Server should provide a user-friendly way to start onion services that facilitate group collaboration, communication, and data sharing. See...
Contributor
Pierre Laperdrix
Mentor
GeKo
Organization
The Tor Project
Fingerprint Central
The capabilities of browser fingerprinting as a tool to track users online has been demonstrated by Panopticlick and other research papers since...