How Tor is building a new Dark Net with help from the U.S. military (The Daily Dot)

The Daily Dot reportsthat the Tor project is receiving some funding from the US Defense AdvancedResearch Projects Agency (DARPA) to improve Tor's hidden services. "The Dark Net road map moving forward is ambitious. Tor plans to double the encryption strength of hidden service's identity key and to allow offline storage for that key, a major security upgrade.Next-generation hidden services may be run from multiple hosts to better deal with denial of service attacks and high traffic in general, a potentially big power boost that further closes the gap between the Dark Net and normal websites."