Facebook Sets Up Shop On Tor · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:18AM from the mixing-privacy-with-antiprivacy dept.

itwbennett writes: Assuming that people who use the anonymity network want to also use Facebook, the social network has made its site available on Tor, Facebook software engineer Alec Muffett said in a post on Friday. Facebook also decided to encrypt the connection between clients and its server with SSL, providing an SSL certificate for Facebook's onion address. This was done both for internal technical reasons and as a way for users to verify Facebook's ownership of the onion address. Since it is still an experiment, Facebook hopes to improve the service and said it would share lessons learned about scaling and deploying services via an onion address over time.

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Re:They wanted to release this years ago... by NotInHere · 2014-10-31 04:45 · Score: 5, Informative

On how they got the address: https://lists.torproject.org/p...
This is how .onion addresses are made: https://gitweb.torproject.org/...
Then they hash the key (using SHA-1), and base32-encode the first 80 bits (first half of the hash).