Howto upgrade to a new version of Tor safely
Jul 10th, 2007 by anonymous
Someone posted a comment saying that it is hard to get a valid copy of a new version of Tor. It’s real easy if you already have a working version of Tor: Go to https://tor.eff.org/download.html.en and download a new copy using Tor. The website is https, the certificate has fingerprint 00:FE:80:50:1A:33:90:B4:97:DE:D7:FF:4D:31:D8:30:7B (issued to *.eff.org) and you can be sure the copy you get is valid since you are using a end-to-end https connection.
It may be slightly harder to get a copy of Tor if you don’t have a working copy of it already if tor.eff.org is blocked in your country (there are many mirrors like https://tor.linuxreviews.org/ which may work if tor.eff.org is blocked). Perhaps the best thing to do is to ask around and find out if anyone you know has a copy if all the sites where it can be downloaded on the net are blocked. If you have a copy of Tor then it’s easy to get a new version: just download the upgrade using Tor..
