Free and open-source software project for enabling anonymous communication
This article is about the organization. For the organization's software, see Tor (network).
The Tor Project, Inc.
Formation
December 2006
Founders
Roger Dingledine Nick Mathewson
Type
501(c)(3)
Tax ID no.
20-8096820
Purpose
To advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding.[1]
Headquarters
Winchester, NH, US
Products
Tor Tor Browser Orbot Snowflake Tails
Executive Director
Isabela Bagueros[2]
Revenue (2020)
$4,400,782[3]
Expenses (2020)
$4,360,447[3]
Website
www.torproject.org 2gzyxa5ihm7nsggfxnu52rck2vv4rvmdlkiu3zzui5du4xyclen53wid.onion (Accessing link help)
The Tor Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) research-education[4] nonprofit organization based in Winchester, New Hampshire. It is founded by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, and five others. The Tor Project is primarily responsible for maintaining software for the Tor anonymity network.[5]
^Tor Project. "Tor Project Mission Statement". Tor Project. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
^N/A, steph (23 April 2018). "Announcing Tor's Next Executive Director: Isabela Bagueros". TorProject. Tor Project Blog. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
^ ab"Tor Project Form 990 2019" (PDF). Tor Project. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
^"The Tor Social Contract | Tor Project". blog.torproject.org. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
^"Tor Project: People". The Tor Project, Inc. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
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the code for Tor under a free license, Dingledine, Mathewson and five others founded TheTorProject as a non-profit organization in 2006, with the financial...
ranked as the 70th-most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. In 2013, she joined the board of Global Voices. In May 2015, theTorProject announced...
having co-founded theTorProject. A student of mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering, Dingledine is also known by the pseudonym arma...
networks such as Tor via an anonymized series of connections. The term "darknet" was popularized by major news outlets and was associated with Tor Onion services...
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TorChat was a peer-to-peer anonymous instant messenger that used Tor onion services as its underlying network. It provided cryptographically secure text...
and inject malware into the connection. This is one reason why the Electronic Frontier Foundation and theTorProject started the development of HTTPS Everywhere...
operating on theTor network. Operation Onymous was formed as a joint law enforcement operation between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the European...
Leyden of The Daily Swig described collaboration between theTorProject and the Guardian Project to develop Orbot for censorship circumvention for any application...
“Technical analysis of the UltraSurf proxying software”, TorProject, 16 April 2012. Blog announcement with updates. "Tor: 'The king of high-secure, low-latency...
storage. The group's work led to a collaboration with the United States Naval Research Laboratory to develop Tor, funded by DARPA. TheProject's early work...
was formerly TorProject board of directors chairman, and is one of the designers of off the record messaging. He attended high school at the University...
Computer Science and Law at Georgetown University, and is on the board of directors of theTorProject. Blaze received his PhD in computer science from Princeton...
applications (or ones who do not support them). TorBOX was at its beginning only a guide released on theTorProject website which also provided some shell scripts...
open-source browser extension developed by TheTorProject and the EFF that automatically makes websites use the more secure HTTPS connection. Switzerland...
Terms of reference (TOR) define the purpose and structures of a project, committee, meeting, negotiation, or any similar collection of people who have...
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