Security News > 2020 > June > Tor soups up onion sites with bountiful browser bump: No more tears trying to find the secure sites you want

The Tor Project this week rolled out an update to its browser that attempts to make the anonymity-protecting onion routing scheme more approachable.

The Tor Project itself emerged from federally funded research led by the US Office of Naval Research and DARPA. Tor is an acronym for the original name of the project, The Onion Router, an encrypted networking protocol designed to support anonymous communication - although paradoxically a popular website for Tor users is Facebook.

Onion services are accessible through the Tor Browser, or a browser like Firefox if the Tor software is installed locally and the browser has been configured to deal with.

The latest Tor Browser lets web publishers advertise their onion service to Tor users through an HTTP header.

The Tor Browser is now following suit, making its security indicator gray so the colored icons indicating insecure connections or sites with mixed content are more visibly apparent.

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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/06/03/tor_browser_upgrade/