The Tor Project
To help improve and make available consumer privacy and censorship circumvention technology
The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that builds and maintains a technology called Tor, which allows internet users to safeguard their online communication by routing traffic through sets of distributed relays in ways that protect the identity of both the sender and receiver. The technology, most commonly used in a browser app (Tor Browser), relies on a network of over 6,000 volunteer-run relays, and Tor is investing in tooling and community outreach to shore up this key piece of internet infrastructure. This grant partially supports Tor’s strategic foci for the coming year: investment in the relay network, a re-implementation of the network in the open-source Rust language, user training and support, and general data collection on network-level internet censorship.