The Onion Router Service at GnuPG.org

This server is part of the TOR network. If you noticed a connection from this server it does not actually originate from here but from another system somewhere out on the net. We have no means to identify the originating system (which is another TOR server). We do not keep any logs either.

(Allium is the latin word for onion)

THIS SERVICE WILL BE SHUTDOWN ON 2008-12-31!

The German data retention law requires us to save the connection information before and after they have been transformed by the TOR server. This is clearly not acceptable for this service and so we have no other choice than to shut it down.

It has been stated several times by the "responsible" politicians that the law explicitly targets services to provide anonymity. In the light of these statements and several criminal investigations in the past, g10 Code GmbH (as the legal entity running this server) can't assume that there is is a reasonable chance to keep running the server without spending a lot of money on court cases or penalties.

We sincerely hope that our Federal Constitutional Court will soon decide on this law and void the problematic parts of the law. As soon as that happens we will continue this service.