DWeb Camp 2026

Onion Services as a communication layer for the DWeb
2026-07-10 , Resilience Base

An overview of Onion Services, and how it can be helpful for the DWeb community.


Onion Services is a unique communication technology for the internet with several interesting properties:

  • Safe by default (built-in end-to-end encryption).
  • Fits everyone in (supports a huge number of addresses without allocation authority).
  • It's robust (has built-in resistance against surveillance, censorship and denial of service).
  • Also works as an anonymization layer.

The first part of the session will cover:

In the second part, both developers and the general audience are invited to talk, either by making questions or starting a discussion on existing and potential uses of Onion Services within the DWeb context.

No previous knowledge of Tor or Onion Services is necessary.

See also: Slides (98.5 KB)

Works as Onion Service Site Reliability Engineer at The Tor Project.