Deep Dive Into Tor Onion Services

Explore the evolution and inner workings of Tor onion services in this comprehensive conference talk. Gain insights into the critical role these services play in protecting privacy and enabling secure communication worldwide. Learn about the legacy onion service protocol, its vulnerabilities, and the development of a new, improved design. Discover how the enhanced onion service architecture offers stronger security, better scalability, and more robust protection for various use cases, including metadata-free communication, journalist-source interactions, and secure software updates. Delve into the technical details of the protocol improvements and understand the current status of its development.