Timeline for How to easily verify certificates on .onion versions of clearnet sites?
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| Mar 14, 2016 at 23:19 | comment | added | php_coder_3809625 | The address is a summary to the public key of that (client) hidden service node. Also hidden web is built for anonymity so SSL won't get you very far. | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 9:26 | comment | added | l0b0 | @php_coder_3809625 How do you mean? The host name "3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion" doesn't tell me anything about the owner, and it's trivial to set up a scraping site which just forwards traffic to the real site. So as far as I can tell nothing about the address verifies the owner. | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 9:17 | history | edited | l0b0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 12, 2016 at 3:56 | comment | added | php_coder_3809625 | SSL is pretty useless when tor is already Point-To-Point encrypted, and you can verify the "certificate" with the address. | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 3:14 | answer | added | Alec Muffett | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 10:56 | answer | added | Alexey Vesnin♦ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 21:40 | answer | added | user11836 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 18:00 | history | asked | l0b0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |