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2H19.9998C20.5521 2 20.9998 2.44772 20.9998 3V17C20.9998 17.5523 20.5521 18 19.9998 18H16.9998V20.9991C16.9998 21.5519 16.5499 22 15.993 22H4.00666C3.45059 22 3 21.5554 3 20.9991L3.0026 7.00087C3.0027 6.44811 3.45264 6 4.00942 6H6.9998ZM5.00242 8L5.00019 20H14.9998V8H5.00242ZM8.9998 6H16.9998V16H18.9998V4H8.9998V6Z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg>' id=copy-cfg style=display:none></div><article data-backlink-icon='<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="20" height="20"><path d="M9.41421 8L18.0208 16.6066L16.6066 18.0208L8 9.41421V17H6V6H17V8H9.41421Z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg>' class=prose><h1 id=history>History</h1><p><strong>2023-November-28</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://digitalcourage.social/@EmeraldOnion/111489870338986862 target=_blank>launched</a> 10 public obfs4 bridges and published them at <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://bridge.emeraldonion.org target=_blank>bridge.emeraldonion.org</a>.</ul><p><strong>2023-November-12</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://github.com/emeraldonion/bridge-management/ target=_blank>published</a> a bridge management shell script for Tor operators on Github.</ul><p><strong>2023-October-31</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion's Board of Directors updated the <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://emeraldonion.org/transparency target=_blank>Transparency Report</a>.</ul><p><strong>2023-August-13</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://digitalcourage.social/@EmeraldOnion/110884036525703235 target=_blank>setup</a> one of the first <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://veilid.com target=_blank>Veilid</a> headless/server nodes while attending DEF CON 31.</ul><p><strong>2023-April-30</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion's Board of Directors updated the <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://emeraldonion.org/transparency target=_blank>Transparency Report</a>.</ul><p><strong>2023-April-7</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion upgraded our Seattle core switch to a <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://digitalcourage.social/@EmeraldOnion/110160086331876361 target=_blank>MikroTik CRS518-16XS-2XQ</a>.</ul><p><strong>2023-March-13</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion's Tor exit probability hit 3rd in the world (4.9118%) with advertised bandwidth at 1,907 MiB's and peak throughput at 5.2 Gbps symmetrical.</ul><p><strong>2022-October-31</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion's Board of Directors updated the <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://emeraldonion.org/transparency target=_blank>Transparency Report</a>.</ul><p><strong>2021-October-4</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion's Tor exit traffic peaked at 10.25 Gigabits (symmetrical) at 2.77 million packets per second.</ul><p><strong>2021-September-28</strong><ul><li>Tor Project's synthetic bandwidth measurements made Emerald Onion temporarily look like #1 in Tor Exit providers @ 11.65 Gbps Advertised Bandwidth and 17% Exit Probability.</ul><p><strong>2021-September-19</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion deployed two more AMD Epyc 7402P servers along with 80 new Tor exit relays for stress testing, for 118 relays in total.</ul><p><strong>2021-March-25</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://twitter.com/bcix/status/1375143681397784585 target=_blank>began</a> peering with the <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://www.bcix.de/bcix/members/ target=_blank>Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange (BCIX)</a> in Berlin, Germany.</ul><p><strong>2021-March-24</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion migrated 20 (of 37) relays to a new AMD Epyc 7402P system using HardenedBSD 13.</ul><p><strong>2021-February-5</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion deployed a temporary <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://twitter.com/EmeraldOnion/status/1357881138325372936 target=_blank>Signal TLS Proxy</a> for Iranian Signal users.</ul><p><strong>2021-January-6</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion upgraded their Seattle edge router to a MikroTik CCR1072-1G-8S+.</ul><p><strong>2020-August-10</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://twitter.com/EmeraldOnion/status/1292838300533760005 target=_blank>joined</a> the League of Entropy to provide verifiable randomness as a service.</ul><p><strong>2020-June-27</strong><ul><li>Will and yawnbox presented at ToorCon VirtualToor on <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://virtualtoor.toorcon.net/Session:Growing_a_501(c)(3)_transit_ISP_for_privacy_infrastructure target=_blank>Growing a 501(c)(3) transit ISP for privacy infrastructure</a>.</ul><p><strong>2020-June-17</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion deployed a Point of Presence (POP) in Fremont, California with connectivity to FCIX, thanks to a Hurricane Electric donation.</ul><p><strong>2019-August-8</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion's overclocked Intel i7-8086k system <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://twitter.com/EmeraldOnion/status/1159629121158148102 target=_blank>became the fastest Tor relay</a>.<li>Emerald Onion's total advertised bandwidth reached 10.9 Gbps (symmetrical).</ul><p><strong>2019-June-24</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://twitter.com/EmeraldOnion/status/1143407128859668480 target=_blank>added</a> an Intel QuickAssist Adapter 8950 to the overclocked Intel i7-8086k relay and migrated its OS to CentOS.</ul><p><strong>2019-June-21</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion reached top 4 of exit families, 5.65% exit probability, at 8.9 Gbps (symmetrical) advertised bandwidth.</ul><p><strong>2019-June-10</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion migrated their Intel Xeon D-2146NT edge router to VyOS.</ul><p><strong>2019-May-13</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion deployed two Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3 relay servers using HardenedBSD 12.</ul><p><strong>2019-May-1</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion reached 3.05% exit probability at 4.6 Gbps (symmetrical) advertised bandwidth.</ul><p><strong>2019-April-27</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion reached top 5 of exit families at 4.04 Gbps (symmetrical) advertised bandwidth.</ul><p><strong>2019-April-15</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion reached the top 10 of Tor exit families for the first time.</ul><p><strong>2019-April-8</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion migrated their edge router to an Intel Xeon D-2146NT system using HardenedBSD 12.</ul><p><strong>2019-April-2</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion deployed a 40-core Tor relay server using HardenedBSD and <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor target=_blank>Ansible-Relayor</a>.</ul><p><strong>2019-April-1</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion upgraded to 10 Gbps transit (WAN) via Hurricane Electric.<li>Emerald Onion completed their <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://www.arin.net/resources/manage/rpki/roa_request/ target=_blank>Route Origin Authorizations (ROA)</a> deployment with ARIN.</ul><p><strong>2019-March-12</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion reached the top 11 of Tor exit families for the first time.</ul><p><strong>2019-March-6</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion deployed 10 Gbps high-availability switching for their Local Area Network (LAN).</ul><p><strong>2019-February-24</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion upgraded their edge router to an Intel Xeon D-1557 system.</ul><p><strong>2018-December-9</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion completed IRR deployment with ARIN.</ul><p><strong>2018-November-14</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion deployed an overclocked (Intel i7-8086k at 5.2 GHz) Linux server for Tor relaying.</ul><p><strong>2018-August-10</strong><ul><li>yawnbox <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs6a1i4Owic" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" target=_blank>presented</a> Emerald Onion to DEF CON 26 in Las Vegas, Nevada.</ul><p><strong>2018-June-30</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion moved to the Seattle <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://www.westinbldg.com/ target=_blank>Westin Building (WBX)</a> and upgraded our <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=http://seattleix.net/participants/ target=_blank>Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX)</a> link to 10 Gbps.</ul><p><strong>2018-June-2</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion migrated their edge router from pfSense to HardenedBSD.</ul><p><strong>2018-March-26</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion's Board of Directors published their first <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://emeraldonion.org/transparency target=_blank>transparency report</a>.</ul><p><strong>2018-March-14</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion was included in <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" href=https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-privacy-challenge-2018/ target=_blank>Duck Duck Go's Privacy Challenge</a> fundraiser.</ul><p><strong>2017-October-27</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion's 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status approved by the United States IRS.</ul><p><strong>2017-September-22</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion reached top 12 of exit families for the first time.</ul><p><strong>2017-August-19</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion deployed DNSSEC for forward and reverse lookup zones.</ul><p><strong>2017-July-19</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion was granted their first direct-assignment IPv4 /24 subnet from ARIN.</ul><p><strong>2017-July-11</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion breached 1 Gbps (symmetrical) actual throughput from Tor exit relay traffic.</ul><p><strong>2017-July-7</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion deployed a 1 Gbps link to Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX).</ul><p><strong>2017-July-2</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion was assigned Autonomous System Number (ASN) 396507 by ARIN.<li>Emerald Onion turned on their first Tor exit relays.</ul><p><strong>2017-June-30</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion was granted their first direct-assignment IPv6 /36 subnet from ARIN.</ul><p><strong>2017-June-19</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion deployed this website, emeraldonion.org.</ul><p><strong>2017-June-15</strong><ul><li>Emerald Onion received nonprofit incorporation approval by Washington's Secretary of State.</ul></article></div><footer><div class=copyright><p>emeraldonion.org is released into the public domain under the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href=https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ target=_blank>CC0 1.0 Universal</a>.</div><div class=credits>powered by <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href=https://www.getzola.org target=_blank>zola</a> and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href=https://github.com/isunjn/serene target=_blank>serene</a></div></footer></main></div><script src=/js/lightense.min.js></script><script src=/js/main.js></script>