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Warrant canary

Issued August 1, 2026Next due September 1, 2026PGP signed
Short answer

A warrant canary is a regularly republished statement that a provider has not received a secret legal demand; if it stops being updated, the reader infers that one has arrived. This canary is issued monthly, signed with our PGP key, and timestamped against an external Bitcoin block hash so it cannot have been pre-signed. Its legal status is untested in most courts — treat it as an inference mechanism, not a guarantee.

Statements true as of August 1, 2026

  1. OnionVPS Systems L.L.C. has not received any National Security Letter or equivalent secret order.
  2. OnionVPS has not received any gag order or secrecy directive preventing it from disclosing the existence of a legal demand.
  3. OnionVPS has not been compelled to modify its systems to facilitate surveillance of any customer.
  4. OnionVPS has not been compelled to hand over cryptographic keys, and holds no customer LUKS passphrases.
  5. No OnionVPS infrastructure has been physically seized.
  6. OnionVPS retains no netflow, connection or DNS query logs, and has not been ordered to begin retaining any.
Bitcoin block
918,442
Block hash
00000000000000000001f0a5f4e6c9b8a5d3c7e2f1908a6b4c2d5e8f3a7b1c9d0
Signing key
9F4C 2B71 A0D8 5E63 1C0A 77B2 4E8D 3F91 6A5C 0E22
Schedule
Monthly, on the first day of the month, 08:00 UTC
How to read this

If this page is not updated by September 1, 2026, or if a statement is removed rather than reaffirmed, draw your own conclusions. We will not — and in some jurisdictions cannot — explain why. Verify the signature against the fingerprint above, and check the block hash against a Bitcoin explorer: it proves the statement could not have been signed before that block existed.

Publication history

Every canary we have published, with the transparency count
IssuedStatusLegal demands received
August 1, 2026All statements true0
July 1, 2026All statements true0
June 1, 2026All statements true0
May 1, 2026All statements true0
April 1, 2026All statements true0
March 1, 2026All statements true0

The transparency count records valid legal demands received. Because we hold an email address and a payment reference and nothing else, a demand that does arrive produces very little — but we count it regardless.