Questions tagged [onion-routing]
Questions relating to onion routing, and onion routing protocols
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Has Tor Browser stopped displaying circuits?
I started using Tor v4 most intrigued by the display of the circuit path it followed, 4 nodes from at least 2 countries and usually 3 or 4.
Now at v9 I don't see it anymore. Has display of the ...
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Details about Tor's Packaging Window and Delivery Window
I have learned Tor's congestion control policy from the paper: Tor：The Second-Generation Onion Router. But I don't understand Tor's Packaging Window and Delivery Window.
The paper said: "The ...
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Tor Hidden Service Suddenly Stopped Working
I setup my hidden service a in February and has been working completely fine. After 9 days of not having my service running 20th-29th March, Tor keeps on giving me the error "We can’t connect to the ...
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How do I prevent tor from overwriting my hostname file?
I am trying to use my own custom .onion address using eschalot and after I add my info to hostname and key info into the private key file, upon starting tor, it overwrites my custom address and adds a ...
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Hidden Services can intros correlate IP with .onion?
I was looking through allot of the details with the hidden services. One answer was done very well and explained allot, which I have linked below. I wasn't sure on exactly how the intro can correlate ...
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Are relays chosen by location proximity, e.g. county, for circuit building?
Are relays chosen by location proximity, e.g. county, for circuit building?
I know that there exists some rules but I didn't read anything about location. If the location of a client is not ...
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tor Onion Circuits
I'm a neub learning Tor relaying and bridges. I am currently operating a relay on a droplet. It has been up for 14 days and has all of the flags assigned to it. I use a Pi 3 with Raspbian and run NYX ...
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Every onion link I try will not work
I am running for 9.0.4 downloaded from Google play on a android phone. Every time I try to access any .onion link it will not work. I have tried using .dog and .ws they won't work. I am new to tor so ...
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What's an “onion circuit”?
Being new to tor, I had opened a "onion circuits" window just to see some of it's magic without fully understanding what it means.
I noticed that in the "normal case" I see a variety of hosts from ...
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DDoS and censorship-resistant onion services
When thinking about building a secure, DDoS and censorship-resistant onion service, I've seen many implementations using compartmentalization (like Qubes AppVMs) of services and OnionBalance. Such ...
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Most '.onion' links won't load?
OS: Kali Linux Live
Settings have not been modified.
Most '.onion' links that I try to access simply refuse to load. They will hang on the loading screen until the connection times out. Not all of ...
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why is my tor browser not opening big blue market?
Why has my tor browser stopped opening Big Blue market. It was working fine but now it just says timed out?
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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?
