Questions tagged [onion-routing]
Questions relating to onion routing, and onion routing protocols
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Special search in tor
How can I search in tor browser and get only .onion URLs?Because right now it jut like a normal search engine but with hiddenwiki what makes it just a little bit better than Chrome.
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make a TOR url act like Alias in DNS
I have a onion domain private key and registered a clearnet website hosting on namecheap.com
Now I want to make the onion domain work like alias to the clearnet url like the Alias DNS record.
How ...
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Is there guarantee of privacy to buy onion hosting?
I see many people owning a onion site uses his own server (maybe just place the server in his home?)
But traditionally for a regular non-onion site we usually buy hosting. Can I buy hosting for a ...
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Are 7 hops really necessary when connecting to an Onion Service?
My understanding is that if I connect to an Onion Service the connection forms in the following way: My Computer -> My Entry Node (1) -> My Middle Node (2) -> My Exit Node (3) -> Rendezvous Point (4) &...
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onion sites not working [closed]
I am rather new to Tor and not sure if it is something I missed, or that I have done wrong. Almost every single onion site (90% of them) I try to access shows the error message "Unable to connect".
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SOCKS5 protocol: “binding” on a hidden service address
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Accepting incoming connections over Tor through the Tor proxy. I'm developing a socks client in rust for tokio tcp streams. Like https://crates.io/crates/tokio-socks but with upgraded ...
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Who are responsible for manage Tor directory servers?
Many documents says that a user that use tor network should connect to tor directory server to make circuit.
Who is responsible for manage Tor directory servers?
if there are some people who is ...
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How to find onion address?
Hello I'm newbie to onion protocol.
Tor(Onion) protocol is basically consist of three nodes for my anonymity connection.
However, in this point, we have to clarify HOW TO FIND ENTRY GUARD before ...
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Can't host my own hidden service
I use lighttpd, i can access localhost with Firefox, use port 9000,
I modified my torrc with this port;
HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:9000
Reload, ...
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does anyone know how I can setup a server to host my own private shop on the hidden service
I would like to open open my own shop with .onion extention but I'm stuck where to begin. Is there anyone who can give pointers or know if there is an extising guide from buying the server through to ...
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making request onion sites without tor
I made a simple server at my home hosted by tor. The server contains my personal files and i dont like paying services for hosting websites because hosting on tor is free and hidden. It doesn't matter ...
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Tor Key Exchange Remaining Anonymous
If the client device performs 3 DH key exchanges with the 3 Tor relay devices, how does Tor provide anonymity to the client; wouldn't the IP address of the client be seen during the key exchange?? How ...
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Questions about the onion v3 services keys
As far as I understand (if there is any error, please correct it), when configuring an onion v3 service, three files are generated: "hostname", "hs_ed25519_secret_key" and "hs_ed25519_public_key". The ...
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Tor and Onion Rouitring work whilst SSL is out on my network
I have a weird problem going on: Between 6 and 8 pm I am unable to make any ssl connections through my router - and it effects various devices using a range of operating systems and but wifi and ...
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I no longer have access to any Onion websites
It's been a while since this have happened. I can't access any onion websites; it just don't load it, no matter what I do. I triple checked my computer time, and its not the problem. I uninstalled and ...
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The beginnings of Onion Routing: I need an explanation about this 1996 chart
The graph above comes from the document "HIding Router Information", used to formally present the concept of 'Onion Routing' at a convention in Cambridge in 1996.
I am analysing this graph for ...
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How do I navigate onion to get into the dark web?
It just goes to the home screen every time. I can’t figure out how to even get into the dark web. I downloaded TOR and onion from the App Store since I am using an iPhone but can’t figure out how to ...
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Onion service and dynamic IP
I saw on Tor's FAQ that a Tor Relay can work well with a dynamic IP, I was wondering if it's the same for a service or if it would be sometimes unreachable ?
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displaying streams from onion service to rendezvous point
Using the Linux onioncircuits package or carml monitor, I see circuits for onions that I'm accessing (client-side circuits). I also see circuits for onions that I'm hosting, and accessing from another ...
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How to get Onion v3 private key
I have genarated a castom onion v3 domain by using mkp224o
i got 3 file
1. hostname
2. hs_ed25519_public_key
3. hs_ed25519_secret_key
but i need private key . how can i get private key from this 3 ...
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How to create a mirror of a clearnet website?
I have an already running https website and I would like to also have a full functioning (with logins) mirror of it. I have read about EOTK and Onionize but I am not quite sure about it.
Thanks in ...
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Is oniontip.com dead?
When i visit oniontip it shows http://ns391359.ip-37-187-163.eu on the screen and nothing.
So what happened to this site?
Do they switched to better alternative?
Is there any similar sites or ...
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What are the exact technical differences between the error messages when the client cant connect to the hidden service?
when you browse a hidden service which is not there anymore you can see two different error messages.
English: Server Not Found / Hmm. We're having trouble finding that site.
German: Server nicht ...
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Is it possible to get a specific .onion domain or a domain containing a certain string? [duplicate]
I am trying to create an Onion Service however in the configuration guide it appears that Tor generates a random .onion url for each service so I was wondering if there was a way to get a particular ....
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Drawing a blank
I don't use Tor that often, but how do I access .onion sites. I am completely lost - I remember my name, password, and pin - but how to get there? HELP!
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How do we extend our privacy on TOR circuit?
The Tor Browser bounces your communications data through distributed network of relays by encrypting traffic in at least three layers
selected from thousands of volunteer computers, thus making ...
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How do I use tor network to access my email account
Is there anyway to use tor network to securely access me email accounts like with onion?
I use tor browser to access my email account and sent my self an email to another email service and it showed ...
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Can onion directories find my address? [duplicate]
I know most onion directories use crawlers to collect onion addresses.
If I never share my onion address publicly or with anyone, can onion directories still find ways of discovering the address?
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Relay cell size moving backward
I have been studying the papers on Tor and Onion Routing for my thesis and I have been trying to figure out how the whole cell size works.
In the OR paper it is made clear that when a cell moves in ...
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Setting up relay on Ubuntu 16.04
This is our torrc file configuration:
SocksPort 0
RunAsDaemon 1
ORPort 9001
ORPort [2409:4070:219c:d7f8:94cf:ac05:ee3b:b21c]:9001
ContactInfo itstrulyjenni(at)gmail(dot)com
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Differences between Onion Routing (Public Key) and Tor-Circuit (Session Key)
I have a hard time understanding how a message is transmitted, when the Public Keys are used and when the Session Keys.
Tor Client connects to a directory server to get a list of active relays & ...
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Is Mix-Kaskading based on the Onion-Routing?
[Note: I'm no native english speaker]
1981 David Chaum first introduced Mix-Networks.
1995 Tor began its life as a research project in the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), where 1996 three ...
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Can't change hostname and key for Tor hidden service
I've generated private key and hostname to my onion domain using scallion, and I have tried to copy and paste it into the hidden service directory, to the "hostname" and "privatekey" files, but wheb I ...
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Bitcoin wallet address on Dream Market
I cannot get my bitcoin wallet full on Dream Market because the Bitcoin address is only valid for 10 days but then they don't give you a new one or the tip to get a new BTC address.Can you help me ...
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TOR How does middle node know which chain a packet belongs to?
"Tor works like a chain of proxies, where each proxy only knows about the next hop and the previous hop."
I presume that a TOR node may be part of more than one circuit though, how does it know which ...
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how do i host .onion on my top level domain name
I understand how to start up a TLD and host the website.
how do i host .onion on my top level domain name. Do we purchase the .onion?
Any suggestions on this question.
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What is the purpose of the .onion domain?
I do understand the point of the TOR network in order to anonymize your connections, especially in states where you don't have much liberties. That's probably a good thing.
However what is the point ...
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How is connecting to clearnet sites diffrent than connecting to .onion sites?
So, I understand that for .onion sites it can help keep them anonymous but is there much of a difference for the user? Does have any added privacy/security?
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Does Tor use Garlic Routing?
I came across the garlic routing section (8.1.1) in Roger's Master's thesis: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/86475/46861930-MIT.pdf?sequence=2. I am not sure whether current Tor version ...
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Unable to connect to localhost or 127.0.0.1
I am trying to setup onion hidden service and i am using xampp default apache web server.
I setup everything correctly and got my hostname and private key but the main problem i am getting is that i ...
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How make Ruby on Rails app available in .onion?
I have dedicated web server working by Rybu on Rails. But I don't know how to make it work in .onion link.
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Generating .onion adresses out of public key
Suppose in my node.js app I have a 1024bit RSA key pair., I hashed the public key and derive .onion addres from the hash.
Is it possible to register this exact keypair and the hostname as a hidden ...
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What happens when you add a .to or .direct or .city to an onion link? [closed]
So I thought that would happen if I type an .onion address into safari and add a .to to the address without deleting .onion while doing this I was using a VPN but the page did not open so I tried ....
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How does Tor browser find hidden websites [closed]
I was reading about search engines and i have seen that google for example is crawling and expending it's indexes by finding new links inside of the current websites he is scanning at the time.
So my ...
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Non-tor service over tor
I'm struggling to find information on how to route non Tor services over Tor.
Say i wanted to run a GPS tracking server as a hidden service, I could create a hidden service and point that to the ...
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Do Tor relays require knowledge of the real IP address of a hidden service, to enable routing to it?
From what I have read so far from the internet, in order to use the hidden service, the hidden service contacts random TOR relays and sends the public key to them. The hidden service also signs a ...
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Finding all onion addresses
Is there any direct way to ask all registered onion addresses from Tor directories? If it is not available, it should be bruteforced for specific ports? I mean all 16 chars onion addresses should be ...
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How do I tell TOR to not cache Onion descriptors?
When I run tor.exe and try to make a connection to a .onion domain via SOCKS and the hidden service is available at that moment, the connection opens quickly. Conversely, if the hidden service is not ...
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How does TOR route back to the originator while maintaining privacy? [duplicate]
Obviously, the original IP address of the TOR user isn't available to the website they are viewing, but when the website responds back to the exit node, what information is the exit node maintaining ...
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can I use hiddenservice address for irc and ssh or just one [closed]
I was wondering If i can use extra onion address I got from code as >showing:
Step Three: More advanced tips
If you plan to keep your service available for a long time, you >might want to ...
