Russian President Vladimir Putin has been cracking down on protests and independent media following his invasion of Ukraine, and that's where the new onion service comes in.
Alec Muffett, a security researcher who developed the enterprise onion toolkit, announced on his website that he was delighted to announce their new onion service. It's also known as EOTK, and it allows websites to quickly add onion services.
This is possibly the most important and long-awaited message I've ever written.
The new onion service can be found at this address.
twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onionUsers can access it through a browser that supports the private-browsing mode of the internet service provider.
The announcement was not tied to either the Ukraine invasion or Putin's restrictions on civil rights. The move could allow some Russians to access the social media network. People reported last week that the site was being blocked.
AdvertisementThe company has reported that people in Russia have been having difficulties reaching its site, but it hasn't confirmed whether the service has been fully blocked by the Russian Internet censorship agency.
Muffett's EOTK is intended for use with websites that already have a public-facing, non-Tor presence. Adding EOTK will allow administrators to add a.onion address. Muffett said that he and the company's engineers had to modify to meet their extraordinary production requirements.
The name, The Onion Router, is a reference to the layers of encryption created by the system. There are more than 7,000 relays on the network and nearly 3000 bridges that are hidden to help circumvent censorship.
The onion service was launched by Facebook as an experiment. It is still accessible and has been upgraded to meet the new standards for onion services.
The New York Times, the BBC, Radio Free Europe, and other popular websites are all available with the help of the internet anonymity service. There is an extensive list on Muffett's repository.
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