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Searching for Tor hidden servicces
These are search engines that index .onion sites:
Torch
not Evil
Candle
ahmia.fi
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What prevents directory server from being attacked?
What prevents a directory server from being dishonest and give malicious data to the user?
The information served by the directories is generated by reaching a consensus between the authorities. You ...
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Where does tor look for directory servers?
Found it.tor creates a directory .tor in the home directory (on Linux).
$ ls ~/.tor
cached-certs cached-microdesc-consensus cached-microdescs cached-microdescs.new lock state
$ grep -Rn 193.11....
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Cannot open Tor Browser using Terminal
The desktop file doesn't work in any case. However Tor comes with a shell script. You can execute it and Tor Browser will start. It is located in the Browser/ subdirectory:
tor-browser_en-US/Browser/...
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implementation for Tor directory server?
To be a directory server, it is merely a configuration change in your TORRC. Anyone can be or advertise that you are a directory server but none of the clients would trust it. The source code for Tor ...
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How does Tor guarantee server integrity?
This is not what is actually happening. When a Tor client first starts, it does connect to the central Tor servers (Directory Authorities, they're called), but it gets the list of all Tor relays ...
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In what ways can private relays be used?
By definition bridge relays are Tor relays that aren't listed in the main Tor directory. So if you set:
BridgeRelay 1
PublishServerDescriptor 0
this will cause your relay to not publish anywhere. ...
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Why does a restart cause a relay to lose the Guard and HSDir flag?
A restart does not cause a relay to lose its Guard and HSDir flags. However, a restart that takes way too long, or frequent restarts (more than one per week, say) can cause a relay to lose its stable ...
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Can't governments who want to censor Tor just block the directory authorities?
When a normal client first starts it fetches the directory information from a directory authority (or a fall-back). Since it does not know any relays it has no choice but to fetch them directly. At ...
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How Tor Browser knows that a directory server is legit?
I assume that you downloaded a valid copy of Tor or Tor Browser. The source code contains information about all current directory authorities. (config.c). Currently there are nine authorities which ...
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Set up Tor as internal Network
My company is looking to use Tor internally for our network, using our own directory authority server, and would like to know if it's possible and how to do it
First of all, if your company have the ...
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Does the Tor browser save cached versions of .onion sites to computer?
The Tor Browser is designed to avoid writing any sensitive data to disk unless the user changes the default settings to enable a feature that does record sensitive data. So with the default settings, ...
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Connecting to Tor Directory Authority via Proxy Server (Protocol Question)
Tor processes (client proxies, relays, bridges, etc) do not communicate over HTTP. They use a custom link protocol within a TLS connection. You must use a tor proxy (or generally, a proxy that speaks ...
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New hidden service want exposure
Your options are the same as for a clearnet site, advertising.
Use (anonymous) social media accounts to advertise the site. If you want to stay anonymous, make sure there is nothing in the social ...
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How are the Directory Authorities chosen?
Could this distribution cause any disadvantages for relays or users outside of Europe or America? Like higher latency, or lower bandwidth for relay measurements?
Yes, but for most cases this wont be ...
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If a client has a not-so-not-fresh consensus (<24hr), does he download the whole consensus again directly or from a relay?
As far as I remember consensus documents are downloaded from the directory guards. Currently, every client has three guards but that's subject to change.
I believe you never download the full ...
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How does handshake with directory server work?
It is an SSL/TLS standard handshake, no homebrew magic : all directory servers' keys and IP addresses are hardcoded into the tor source, you can try adding some extra, if there's a need for some ...
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Cannot open Tor Browser using Terminal
on Ubuntu 18.10 it works now ... just get into dir once download is expanded
cd ~/src/tor-browser-linux64-8.0.3_en-US/tor-browser_en-US
./start-tor-browser.desktop --help
which suggests you issue
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"Directory cache", "directory mirror" and "directory server". Are they synonymous terms in the context of the Tor network?
In version the directory spec v2 directory cache appear to be synonymous:
… Routers may act as directory mirrors (also called "caches"), …
I also took a look at the current ...
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failed to Establishing an encrypted directory connection failed (done - 0.0.2.0:3)
It looks like you have a SSL/TLS attack/intrusion. Try using meek pluggable transport, it is designed specially for the cases like this one
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Can the tor initial client to relay or bridge connection be MITM attacked?
Q 1 So I am assuming that this is unencrypted data. Is this correct?
There is no "data", this is a TCP handshake, you cannot send data until the 3 way handshake is completed. This is simply ...
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Extra Tor bridges
I just duplicated the first message to test, and received three bridges. Must have been a system glitch. The text in the body of the email both times was get transport obfs4. I no longer needed more ...
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Weird Message in Orbot logs?
Tor uses the Directory Protocol to download information about the network. A description for the location /tor/keys/fp/[hash refrence here] can be found at line 3319 of that specification:
The key ...
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torcc directory paths not parsed
edited to provide the correct answer only, rather than a hacky workaround
Encapsulate the whole directory path in " characters.
DataDirectory "Y:\\Workspace\\$projectFiles\\#include\\alpha\\data"
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What are the immutable characteristics that uniquely identify a relay?
The answer to my question is here. Excerpt (emphasis mine):
When upgrading your Tor relay, or moving it on a different computer, the important part is to keep the same identity keys (stored in "...
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Measuring current load on a Tor relay
A Tor instance keeps track of the bytes written and read. This can be discovered by issuing the GETINFO traffic/written and GETINFO traffic/read requests over the control port (See: control-spec.txt).
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What is the difference between a directory server and a hidden service database?
The "database" in the picture is an abstraction, it just represents some shared lookup mechanism.
Relays with certain properties can be assigned the HSDir flag.
Bob chooses 6 of these relays in the ...
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Where does tor look for directory servers?
Actually the servers are listed in source you have discovered. And a lot of nodes are running the mirrors for signed directory data, so in .tor folder you will have a lot of mirrors, but the ...
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Does Tor client connect to multiple Directory Servers?
yes, it's normal. The multiple connections to Directory servers and the nodes mirroring a signed image of Directory are for load balancing and censorship resistance purposes.
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Why does a restart cause a relay to lose the Guard and HSDir flag?
This is just a guess:
When you restart a relay, chances are you're going to restart it again soon. Once it's been up for a day or two, you'll probably leave it running.
I have no research to back ...
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