The address bar will continue to show the onion name.įor the last few weeks, we have been trialing onion names with selected news organizations. If it finds a match, it loads the corresponding full-length. When you visit a SecureDrop using an onion name, Tor Browser looks it up in the map of onion names (under the hood, this is done using ruleset update channels for the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension, but don’t be confused-onion names have nothing to do with HTTPS). ”), this map is maintained by Freedom of the Press Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind SecureDrop. In the case of SecureDrop instances (onion names ending with “. Your browser does not support the video tag. For example, the onion name is mapped against the SecureDrop address for Lucy Parsons Labs. onion addresses to human-readable aliases, called onion names, and keeps it up-to-date. Upon launch, Tor Browser retrieves a map of notable. These long addresses help to secure your communications with an onion service, but they’re also very unwieldy.Īs part of efforts to make onion services more user-friendly, starting with version 9.5, Tor Browser introduced the Onion Names feature. But unless you have total recall, you’re unlikely to keep an address like sdolvtfhatvsysc6l34d65ymdwxcujausv7k5jk4cy5ttzhjoi6fzvyd.onion in the back of your mind. “Anonymous” should not mean “impossible to remember”.
When you visit an onion service (address ends with “.onion”), all traffic to and from the service is encrypted and anonymized.
SecureDrop uses onion services-accessible only via the Tor network-to protect sources sending tips to news organizations. are now available for SecureDrop instances using v3 onion services that are listed in the SecureDrop directory. We are pleased to announce that human-readable onion addresses in the format.
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