Tor works by routing Internet traffic through at least three relays, with data encrypted at each step, creating layers of encryption like an onion-hence the name, The Onion Router. In Twitter’s case, though, Muffett said that he and the company’s engineers had to implement “considerable though reasonable modification to meet their extraordinary production requirements.” Adding EOTK allows administrators to add a.

Muffett’s EOTK is intended for use with websites that already have a public-facing, non-Tor presence. Twitter hasn’t confirmed whether Roskomnadzor, the Russian Internet censorship agency, has been able to fully block the service, but the company has reported that people inside the country have been encountering difficulties reaching its site. Last week, people reported that the site was being blocked inside the country. But the timing is right, and the move could allow some Russians to access the social media network. Neither Twitter nor Muffett tied the announcement to either the Ukraine invasion or Putin’s clampdown on civil rights.

Users can access it through a Tor-compatible browser like the Tor Browser or Brave, which supports Tor in its private-browsing mode. The new Twitter onion service is accessible at the following address: twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion “This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I’ve ever composed,” he added. EOTK, as it’s also known, allows websites to quickly add onion services. “On behalf of I am delighted to announce their new onion service,” tweeted Alec Muffett, a security researcher who developed the Enterprise Onion Toolkit. Twitter has launched a new Tor onion service, a move that has been in the works for years but debuts as Russian President Vladimir Putin has clamped down on protests and independent media following his stalled invasion of Ukraine.

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