4/1/2023 0 Comments Onionshare alternativeI’ve described some of the newest and biggest features in OnionShare, but it’s not nearly an exhaustive list. However, the OnionShare website itself is now accessible using a next gen onion service, and OnionShare will load it to check for available updates: There is an open issue for this, but currently it’s blocked until an upstream project that OnionShare relies on, stem, adds support for ephemeral next gen onion services itself. On a similar note, you might be wondering about OnionShare support for next generation Tor onion services, which are more secure and private than existing onion services. (This is why it’s an advanced feature, it’s not quite practical for beginners to do this without a lot of troubleshooting.) Here’s more information about using stealth onions in OnionShare. The sender needs to share both the OnionShare address but also a HidServAuth string, and the receiver needs to add this HidServAuth string to their torrc file before they’ll be able to connect to it. These are Tor onion services that are much more private, but are also harder to use. Here’s more information about persistent addresses.Īnother advanced feature that’s been added is support for stealth, or authenticated, onion services. Now, Alice can continually anonymously send files to Bob without needing to communicate new OnionShare addresses every time. Alice can hand Bob a piece of paper with an OnionShare address on it and tell him to check it every night at a specific time. For example, let’s say a whistleblower (Alice) meets a journalist (Bob) in person. This might come in handy in any situation where you want to send someone files, but you don’t want to have any online communication channel with them. But now, you can change a setting that will allow you to re-use the same OnionShare URL for multiple shares. By default, every time you share something, OnionShare generates a brand new URL, and soon as you’re done sharing it that URL no longer exists, and never will exist again. Here’s more information about using the auto-stop timer.Īnother feature is persistent OnionShare addresses. (If the receiver starts downloading before that countdown finishes though, they’ll be able to finish downloading all the files no matter how long the download takes.) Once you start the share, you can see a countdown of seconds remaining before it stops on its own. For example, here I’m sharing a screenshot, but the share will automatically stop at 2pm: But now, if the receiver doesn’t download the file after a specified amount of time, OnionShare will automatically stop sharing for you. Already, OnionShare will stop the share as soon as the first download finishes (you can disable this in the settings if you want to send files to multiple people). Here’s more information about how to connect to Tor, and using bridges, in OnionShare.Īnother recent feature is the auto-stop timer. Bridge support was first added last month, and support for meek bridges was added to 1.3 (for Linux only at the moment). Instead, OnionShare connects to Tor itself.īecause OnionShare can now control its own Tor process, it’s now also possible for censored users in countries like China to connect to the Tor network using bridges, from within OnionShare. OnionShare now bundles a copy of Tor with it (and has since May 2017), which means there’s no need to have Tor Browser open in the background anymore. I owe a huge thanks to Glenn Sorrentino for, nine months ago, doing a formal user study of OnionShare users and designing a brand new user experience that only now, in version 1.3, is seeing the light of day. (That’s Tor Browser running in a disposable Whonix AppVM in Qubes, by the way.) In addition to the OnionShare interface getting redesigned, the client-side web interface - what people receiving the files with Tor Browser see - also has a new look: It’s now much more clear exactly what steps you’re supposed to take at every point, and it looks a bit more like a modern piece of software. If you haven’t tried it out in awhile, here are some things that are new: You can get the latest version at .īut first, I owe a huge thanks to Miguel Jacq for churning out new features, taking over a lot of the GitHub issue triaging responsibilities, and becoming a core OnionShare developer. Today we released version 1.3 (and last month we released 1.2, so the releases are getting more frequent). It’s been some time since I’ve written about OnionShare, so I thought I’d write an update on all of the latest work. OnionShare has some exciting new features
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