Tor protects your privacy on the internet by hiding the connection between your Internet address and the services you use. We believe Tor is reasonably secure, but please ensure you read the instructions and configure it properly.

Build

To build Tor from source:

./configure
make
make install

To build Tor from a just-cloned git repository:

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

Releases

The tarballs, checksums and signatures can be found: https://dist.torproject.org

• Checksum: <tarball-name>.sha256sum
• Signatures: <tarball-name>.sha256sum.asc

Schedule

You can find our release schedule here:

• https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/team/-/wikis/NetworkTeam/CoreTorReleases

Keys that CAN sign a release

The following keys are the maintainers of this repository. One or many of these keys can sign the releases, do NOT expect them all:

• Alexander Færøy: 514102454D0A87DB0767A1EBBE6A0531C18A9179
• David Goulet: B74417EDDF22AC9F9E90F49142E86A2A11F48D36
• Nick Mathewson: 2133BC600AB133E1D826D173FE43009C4607B1FB

Development

See our hacking documentation in doc/HACKING/.

Resources

Home page:

• https://www.torproject.org/

Download new versions:

• https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html

Documentation, including links to installation and setup instructions:

• https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html

Frequently Asked Questions:

• https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html