Tor2web
Sign in to saveTor2web (pronounced "Tor to Web") is a software project to allow Tor hidden services to be accessed from a standard browser without being connected to the Tor network. It was created by Aaron Swartz and Virgil Griffith.
Source code
The software was originally developed by Aaron Swartz and Virgil Griffith and is now mainteined by Giovanni Pellerano as part of the GlobaLeaks project. Donate To support the Tor2web project you can help us with donations that will goes entirely for the software development. License This software is released under the AGPLv3 license. See LICENSE file for more information.
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.tor2web.org
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- software version identifier
- 3.1.72
- publication date
- 2008-10-24
- inception
- 2008-10-24
- source code repository URL
- github.com/tor2web/Tor2web
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- Operation and security
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Tor2web (pronounced "Tor to Web") is a software project to allow Tor hidden services to be accessed from a standard browser without being connected to the Tor network. It was created by Aaron Swartz and Virgil Griffith.
==History== Tor is a network which enables people to use the Internet anonymously (though with known weaknesses) and to publish content on "hidden services", which exist only within the Tor network for security reasons and thus are typically only accessible to the relatively small number of people using a Tor-connected web browser. Aaron Swartz and Virgil Griffith developed Tor2web in 2008 as a way to support whistleblowing and other forms of anonymous publishing through Tor, allowing materials to remain anonymous while making them accessible to a broader audience. In an interview with Wired Swartz explained that Tor is great for anonymous publishing, but because its focus is not user-friendliness and thus not many people would install it, he wanted to "produce this hybrid where people could publish stuff using Tor and make it so that anyone on the internet could view it".