Tor: a landmark for hidden services

The Tor Project's .onion (hidden services) addresses have been formallyapproved as a Special Use Domain Name by the Internet Engineering TaskForce (IETF). "[Jacob] Appelbaum, a security researcher and advocate at the Tor Project andAlec Muffett, a software engineer at Facebook, co-authored the Requestfor Comments (RFC 7686) to the IETF. Hidden services are used by humanrights defenders, political organizers, journalists, diplomats, andordinary people around the world who want to chat, email, blog or doother everyday work privately and without the use of a centralized,hackable server."