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Some organizations have called it the Year of Democracy. Simultaneously, there is a rising concern that during these many electoral processes, governments in certain parts of the world will block access to the Internet in their countries. Governments may also censor media outlets, persecute and harass journalists, and block social media platforms and messaging apps.\n\nIn this context, the Tor Project has developed a project to monitor global elections, detect Internet censorship taking place during these elections, support Internet users so they can bypass this censorship by using Tor, and document these incidents.\n\nSo far, we\u2019ve monitored elections in Pakistan, Belarus, and Russia.\n\n* Belarus: No new internet censorship detected during the election\n\n* Pakistan: Site blocking, full internet outages, and blocking of VPNs detected\n\n* Russia: No new internet censorship detected during the election\n\n[\u2192 Read more about defending internet freedom in 2024](https://blog.torproject.org/2024-defend-internet-freedom-during-elections/)\n\n# Introduced Webtunnel, a new type of censorship circumvention mechanism\n\n![introducing Webtunnel](https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-webtunnel-evading-censorship-by-hiding-in-plain-sight/lead.webp)\n\nWe celebrated the World Day Against Cyber Censorship by officially announcing WebTunnel, a new type of Tor bridge designed to assist users in heavily censored regions to connect to the Tor network. Available now in the stable version of Tor.\n\nThe development of different types of bridges are crucial for making Tor more resilient against censorship and stay ahead of adversaries in the highly dynamic and ever-changing censorship landscape. This is especially true as we\u2019re going through the 2024 global election megacycle.\n\nWebTunnel is a censorship-resistant [pluggable transport](https://support.torproject.org/glossary/pluggable-transports/) designed to mimic encrypted web traffic (HTTPS) inspired by HTTPT. It works by wrapping the payload connection into a WebSocket-like HTTPS connection, appearing to network observers as an ordinary HTTPS (WebSocket) connection. So, for an onlooker without the knowledge of the hidden path, it just looks like a regular HTTP connection to a webpage server giving the impression that the user is simply browsing the web.\n\n[\u2192 Read more about how Webtunnel empowers censorship circumvention](https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-webtunnel-evading-censorship-by-hiding-in-plain-sight/)\n\n# Launched Tor Postbox, a testimony hub featuring stories from Tor users worldwide!\n\n![launched Postbox](https://blog.torproject.org/support-tor-project-share-your-story/lead.webp)\n\n[Tor Postbox](https://community.torproject.org/outreach/stories/) is a collection of anonymous user stories submitted by people who rely on Tor to protect their privacy and anonymity. We designed this resource to support individuals and organizations who are advocating to defend encryption and privacy-enhancing technology, as well as to better demonstrate Tor\u2019s impact.\n\nWe encourage you to share their experiences with your network, friends and family, or as part of your work to promote the use of privacy-preserving technologies like Tor and help us defend strong online protections.\n\nHere\u2019s one example of the stories on the Postbox hub:\n\n> **Encryption is privacy, as simple as that. Privacy should be the default, giving away information should be the exception. We should never wonder \u201cdo I have something to hide, do I have a reason to not give this information?\u201d This way of thinking is extremely unhealthy. The only real question we should ask ourselves is \u201cdo I have a good reason to share this personal information?\u201d**\n\nYou can watch the Tor Postbox launch event, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K8ki7zBArs, in this video you will hear from digital rights advocates, journalists and other online privacy experts as they share insights on outreach, advocacy, challenges in 2024, and their vision for the future of digital rights.\n\n# Recent releases\n\n* [Tor 0.4.8.11](https://forum.torproject.org/t/stable-release-0-4-8-11/12265) (April 10) - This is a minor release mostly to upgrade the fallbackdir list. Worth noting also that directory authority running this version will now automatically reject relays running the end of life 0.4.7.x version.\n\n* [Arti 1.2.1](https://blog.torproject.org/arti_1_2_1_released/) (April 2) - Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor client in Rust. This release continues development on onion services, and adds several important security features. More such improvements are on the way. \n\n* [Tor Browser 13.0.13](https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-13013/) (March 22) - This is an unscheduled emergency release with important security updates to Firefox for Desktop platforms. Android is unaffected.", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months (N/A if you haven\u2019t participated previously). ", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We report on a variety of ways the Tor network is used and its performance on our open source [Metrics portal](https://metrics.torproject.org). The data here is designed to be reproducible such that anyone can investigate the our claims about the Tor network's usage, speed, relays, countries of impact, and other factors.\n\nBeyond metrics on the network, our User Research and Community teams work regularly to survey, meet with, and build relationships with Tor users in order to better understand their needs and whether or not we're meeting them. We report regularly about these efforts on [our blog](https://blog.torproject.org).", "hidden": false, "question": "Where should we look to see the impact of your project? Please provide links to public websites and/or the latest values for key metrics you track privately. This might be used in future impact reports", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "7000000", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Prior Funding for the project in USD", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Grants"], "hidden": false, "question": "Which of the following funding sources do you have? Check all that apply", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "number", "answer": "207", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?  ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Somewhere in the Metaverse", "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "No", "hidden": true, "question": "Are you applying for any other OSS rounds in GG20? (Reminder: you can only be accepted into one) ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The Tor Project develops **free and open source software for privacy and freedom online**, protecting people from tracking, surveillance, and censorship\u2014the Tor network and Tor Browser.\n\nThe decentralized nature of the Tor Project and the Tor network, alongside our commitment to empowering individuals to exercise their human rights and freedoms online, has made Tor an important piece of infrastructure for a variety of web3 projects, tools, and communities.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project significantly contribute to the Ethereum network\u2019s infrastructure, addressing foundational needs and innovative solutions to current challenges?", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Tor can be used to improve the overall privacy of transactions by hiding which users are communicating to which servers when, and thereby protecting users against a wider variety of traffic analysis and correlation attacks.\n\nWe know there are some pain points in integrating the Tor protocol in this way, including within web3 projects. This is where \"Arti\" comes into play.\n\nArti is a pure-Rust implementation of the Tor protocols, designed from the ground up for flexibility in embedding,  straightforward maintenance, flexible deployment, and good performance. \n\nArti has the potential to benefit the Ethereum ecosystem with network privacy and censorship circumvention properties in many ways, both in the short term and the long term: \n1. Arti makes Tor easier to embed\n2. Arti allows for more fine-grained control over Tor\u2019s behavior, and \n3. Arti ensures Tor improvements can be developed faster.\n\nWe believe Arti is the future of Tor, one that will make it much easier for other applications to adapt Tor to fit with their projects, taking only the parts that they need to keep their binaries small for mobile or other restricted environments.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project promise to elevate the Ethereum ecosystem, particularly in enhancing privacy, interoperability, and/or user experience?", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We encourage everyone to follow the Tor Project's work on the [social media channels of your choice](https://forum.torproject.org/t/the-tor-projects-official-accounts-on-social-media/7125). \ud83e\udd17", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? 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