{"id":236122,"date":"2017-11-03T16:07:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=236122"},"modified":"2017-11-03T16:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:09:06","slug":"tor-unveils-improved-onion-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/236122-tor-unveils-improved-onion-services.html","title":{"rendered":"Tor unveils improved Onion services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.torproject.org\/tors-fall-harvest-next-generation-onion-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tor Blog<\/strong><\/a> has detailed the\u00a0next generation of onion services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been working on this project non-stop for the past 4 years and we officially launched it two weeks ago by publishing our first alpha releases,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>It stated that the\u00a0legacy onion system has been around for over 10 years, and it has &#8220;started to show&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Improvements to the service include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cryptography<\/strong> &#8211; cutting-edge crypto algorithms and improved authentication schemes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New protocol<\/strong> &#8211; a redesigned directory system to defend against info leaks and reduce the overall attack surface.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bigger onions<\/strong> &#8211; new onions are &#8220;bigger and tastier&#8221; and they now look like this: &#8220;7fa6xlti5joarlmkuhjaifa47ukgcwz6tfndgax45ocyn4rixm632jid.onion&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The new system is a well-needed improvement that fixes many shortcomings of the old design, and builds a solid foundation for future onion work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/235960-why-google-blocked-access-to-users-files.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why Google blocked access to users\u2019 files<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tor Blog has detailed the\u00a0next generation of onion services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[37557,2818],"class_list":["post-236122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-the-onion-router-tor","tag-tor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236124,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236122\/revisions\/236124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}