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Emerald Onion

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Emerald Onion
FoundedJune 15, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-06-15)
Type501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
82-2009438
PurposeDigital rights and Human rights
Location
ServicesAnonymity, Anti-Censorship
Volunteers
10
Websiteemeraldonion.org
Primary ASN396507
Peering policyOpen

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Emerald Onion is a nonprofit organization[1] focused on the development of Internet privacy infrastructure.[2] Emerald Onion was incorporated as a non-profit corporation in Washington on June 15, 2017[3] and received United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status on October 27, 2017.[4] Emerald Onion is notable for making infrastructure that facilitates privacy-protected Internet access available to the public, and for advancing the state-of-the-art in privacy-centric Internet access methods and protocols.

Privacy infrastructure development[edit]

Onion routing[edit]

Since its inception in June of 2017, Emerald Onion has operated unfiltered Tor exit relays using HardenedBSD.[5] Unlike individual Tor exit relay operators, Emerald Onion minimizes the number of "hops" between its Tor exit relays and popular online services (minimizing opportunities for internet surveillance), by peering directly with other carrier networks at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs).[6]

Distributed cryptographic randomness[edit]

As a member of the League of Entropy, Emerald Onion began serving a distributed, publicly verifiable randomness beacon[7] in August 2020.[8][9]

Censorship detection[edit]

Since February, 2021, Emerald Onion has hosted an "anchor" for the RIPE Atlas Internet measurement platform, providing the public with a means of making measurements of Internet connectivity and performance from the perspective of Emerald Onion's network.[10] in February 2021.[11]

Encrypted name resolution[edit]

Since April 2021, Emerald Onion has provided a distributed anycast public recursive name server using privacy-protecting encryption technologies including DNS over HTTPS ("DoH"), DNS over TLS ("DoT"), and DNS over QUIC ("DoQ").[12] [13]

Outreach[edit]

A founder of Emerald Onion, Christopher "yawnbox" Sheats,[14] spoke at DEF CON 26 in August 2018,[15] and again at ToorCon VirtualToor 2020 in June 2020[16], discussing how to build privacy infrastructure in the United States as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Public recognition[edit]

Emerald Onion was included in DuckDuckGo's 2018 Privacy Challenge to raise money for human rights nonprofits.[17][18]

Network[edit]

Emerald Onion operates AS396507[19] with direct 10Gbps conections to the Seattle Internet Exchange,[20] Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange[21], and the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange[22], and has an open peering policy.[23] Primary transit is provided by Hurricane Electric[24], with additional transit by Wobcom GmbH and LWLcom GmbH in Berlin, Germany.[25]

Governance[edit]

Emerald Onion is governed by a volunteer Board of Governors which, as of May 15, 2021, consists of Christopher Sheats, Will Scott, and Jake Visser.[26] As of May, 2021, Emerald Onion's Advisory Board includes Shawn Webb, John Brooks, Paul English, Wilton Gorske, and Nate Sales.[27]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "GuideStar Non-Profit Information". www.guidestar.org. Retrieved 2021-04-08. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ "Home". emeraldonion.org. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  3. ↑ @EmeraldOnion. "we're 3" (Tweet). Retrieved 2021-04-08 – via Twitter. Missing or empty |date= (help)
  4. ↑ "Tax Exempt Organization Search Emerald Onion". irs.gov. IRS. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  5. ↑ "Relay Search". metrics.torproject.org. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  6. ↑ "DEF CON 26 - yawnbox - Privacy Infrastructure Challenges and Opportunities". youtube.com. DEFCON. 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2021-04-17. “It is ideal, i think, that traffic that you’re exiting has as little hops as possible. What I mean by a hop is some other router or switch on the internet that is owned by some unknown company, and every one that it traverses is an opportunity for surveillance in some form or fashion”
  7. ↑ "League of Entropy: Decentralized Randomness Beacon". cloudflare.com. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  8. ↑ "The League of Entropy launches drand v1.0 to become the Internet's first production-grade, publicly verifiable randomness beacon!". drand.love. League of Entropy. 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2021-04-17. With the LoE Main Network upgrade, a set of new partners joined the league to increase its robustness and quality of service. The current set of members include... Emerald Onion.
  9. ↑ Alyssa Hertig (2020-08-11). "How a Decentralized Randomness Beacon Could Boost Cryptographic Security". Coindesk. Retrieved 2021-05-21. League of Entropy’s drand beacon network is unique in that it generates randomness in a new way that doesn’t rely on a single point of failure. Membership has expanded to include Emerald Onion.
  10. ↑ "RIPE Atlas". ripe.net. RIPE. 2021-02-21. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  11. ↑ @EmeraldOnion. "We are now running a RIPE Anchor" (Tweet) – via Twitter. Missing or empty |date= (help)
  12. ↑ "Emerald Onion's Encrypted DNS Resolver". www.github.com. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  13. ↑ @EmeraldOnion. "We're launching a public DNS resolver (#DoH, #DoT), including one of the world's first DNS-over-QUIC (#DoQ) services" (Tweet) – via Twitter. Missing or empty |date= (help)
  14. ↑ Knowles, Bryan (Summer 2018). "Christopher Sheats Founder of the Emerald Onion". XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3220669. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  15. ↑ yawnbox (2018-08-10). Privacy infrastructure, challenges and opportunities. DEF CON 26. Las Vegas, NV.
  16. ↑ yawnbox (2020-06-27). Growing a 501c3 transit ISP for privacy infrastructure. VirtualToor 2020. Online.
  17. ↑ Duck Duck Go, Inc. [@DuckDuckGo] (2018-03-21). "Emerald Onion operates high-capacity, fully open Tor exit routers to protect privacy, anonymity & more. They're 1 of many orgs in the DuckDuckGo Privacy Challenge!" (Tweet). Retrieved 2021-04-08 – via Twitter.
  18. ↑ "Advancing Privacy Worldwide". duckduckgo.com. Duck Duck Go, Inc. 2011–2020.CS1 maint: Date format (link)
  19. ↑ "Whois-RWS". whois.arin.net. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  20. ↑ "Seattle Internet Exchange Participants". seattleix.net. Seattle Internet Exchange. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  21. ↑ Kube, Pascal (2019-09-07). "Members/Peers | BCIX". Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  22. ↑ "Participants". Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  23. ↑ "Emerald Onion Peering". emeraldonion.org. Retrieved 2021-04-08. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  24. ↑ "AS396507 Info". bgp.he.net. Retrieved 2021-04-08. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  25. ↑ "AS396507 Peers". bgp.he.net. Retrieved 2021-04-08. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  26. ↑ "Washington Office of the Secretary of State, Corporations & Charities Division". ccfs.sos.wa.gov. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
  27. ↑ "About Emerald Onion". Retrieved 2021-05-21.


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