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Questions relating to Tor Onion Services

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How do Hidden Services get .onion domains that aren't random?

They use a tool like Shallot to brute-force the onion address. What Shallot does is to generate a private key in the same way that the Tor software does when generating a new hidden service address. …
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What are the threat differences to accessing hidden services compared to the regular interne...

I understand many of the possible attacks against a user visiting a regular website over Tor but I am wondering, what are the potential attacks to identify a connection between a user and a hidden ser …
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Can a hidden service be hosted by multiple instances of Tor?

Is it possible for multiple Tor clients, running on different machines or even networks, to publish the same Tor hidden service using the same private key to load balance requests between them?
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What are the implications of a Relay hosting a Hidden Service?

I believe that all of your questions can be answered by explaining the underlying threat when running any relay on the same Tor as a hidden service: Relays publish bandwidth information about their u …
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