Do you have a synopsis of what Tor2web is and what it does? How to use it. thanks.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Giovanni Pellerano < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > We’re happy to announce the release of Tor2web 3.1.30 [1] that includes > support for access to .onion sites over TLS. > > Tor2web[2] is HTTP proxy server software used for accessing onion sites. > > The Tor2web support for TLS includes the following security features: > > - TOFU (Trust on First Use) certificate validation by caching the > fingerprint of the .onion site > - Validation of CN (Common Name) and SANs (Subject Alternative Names) > specified in the certificate of the .onion domain. > > As Facebook has recently opened its own onion site [3], we’ve been > coordinating this release with Alec Muffett from Facebook in order to > block access to Facebook by means of the Tor2web proxy. Because Facebook > has a normal website, using Tor2web merely presents an option for users > to hurt themselves. You can see the Facebook block here: > https://facebookcorewwwi.tor2web.org > > Current Tor2web conduits are: > > - tor2web.org (running 2 out of 3 servers after recent server takedown > due to CryptoWall abuses) > - tor2web.fi by Ahmia (https://ahmia.fi) > - onion.lt > - onion.to (temporally dead after server takedown) > - tor2web.blutmagie.de (expired certificates) > > We remind the community that Tor2web yearns for additional operators. > > If you want to run a Tor2web conduit or otherwise support Tor2web: > - take a look at our wiki https://github.com/globaleaks/Tor2web-3.0/wiki > - join the tor2web-talk mailing list > http://lists.tor2web.org/mailman/listinfo/tor2web-talk > > [1] https://github.com/globaleaks/Tor2web-3.0 > [2] https://www.tor2web.org/ > [3] > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/facebook-hidden-services-and-https-certs > > Giovanni Pellerano - Founding Member > HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights > http://logioshermes.org - https://globaleaks.org - https://tor2web.org - > https://ahmia.fi > > > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
