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I got infected by ransomware, and it tells me to download Tor. What's going on?
What's going on?
You got a malware that encrypted all your files. To get them back, you have to pay. This type of malware is called Ransomware (Wikipedia).
What do you mean by encrypted all my files?...
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resolve .onion address from bash
You should use --socks5-hostname instead of just --socks5.
This way, the socks5 proxy does the hostname resolution. Otherwise curl tries to resolve the hostname itself, which it can't.
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resolve .onion address from bash
Moreover, you should use torsocks - built-in utility for working with Tor Network.
It is designed to prevent any leakage! Please, read the man page.
For example:
root@localhost:/# torsocks curl ...
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I got infected by ransomware, and it tells me to download Tor. What's going on?
I'm sorry to hear that! It sounds like you have been infected with ransomware named "Cryptowall". This is a type of malware that encrypts your files and deletes the originals, and then blackmails you ...
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Are .onion addresses leak-proof?
No, .onion's are not exempt from DNS leaks.
Since it's possible for people to run local DNS gTLDs, DNS infrastructure will generally respect and dutifully perform lookups for invalid domain names. DNS ...
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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 encryption algorithms does Tor use?
What encryption algorithms does Tor use?
See the following sections of the Tor Protocol Specification:
0.2 Security parameters
0.3 Ciphers
Isn't RSA 1024 considered weak?
1024 hasn't been broken ...
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Decrease number of hidden service hops?
There are several amendments to Tor being researched to enable this functionality; the functionality does reduce/remove the anonymity of the server but sometimes that is okay, e.g. if (like Facebook) ...
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Trying to config hidden service, but encounter folder permission error
Tor should control the hidden service private key, it has nothing at all to do with the httpd so you shouldn't be putting the private key or setting the hidden service directory anywhere related to ...
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How do I host multiple hidden services? (Multiple addresses)
HiddenServicePort corresponds to the most recent HiddenServiceDir entry.
HiddenServicePort VIRTPORT [TARGET]
Configure a virtual port VIRTPORT for a hidden service. You may use this option ...
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Can a hidden service be hosted by multiple instances of Tor?
Running multiple Tor instances with the same private key will not provide reliable load balancing as normally only one instance descriptor is listed in the Tor hidden service DHT at a time.
However I'...
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From what depends .onion addresses - public or private key of the service?
The public key is also derived from the private key. The .onion address is a hash of the public key but ultimately both are derived from the private key.
Generate a private key,
Get the public key ...
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Is there a common way to contact the administrator of a .onion site?
What would one expect is that there should not be contact information available about person running .onion site unless the person provides those information on the website itself.
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Which node(s), if any, in the circuit for a hidden service, can see the URI of a request to a hidden service?
(Assuming the URL is http://X.onion?foo=bar)
One relay (HSDir) knows that someone (but not who) wanted to look up the record for where to leave a message to request to talk to "X".
Another relay (...
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Tor Browser won't launch after torrc file edited for hidden services
Make sure you have the directory C:\Users\UserName\tor_service and tor has read, write, and execute permissions.
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Adding Clinet SSL to HIdden Service
It's exactly the same excepting that no CA will sign your CSR (it'll be a self-signed certificate) and it's mostly superfluous because .onion is already providing end-to-end authenticate encryption.
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How does "HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient" work?
A hidden service is truly hidden, this add another layer to discriminate clients.
In traditional HS, a hidden server publish in the tor network how to begin a communication with it (not its true ...
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How can Facebook's Tor Onion be constantly accessible with the massive bandwidth demand?
First of all to entirely deny service to an onion service you'd need to take 6 positions in the hidden service directories hashring constantly.
You need to generate long term identity keys for all 6 ...
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Are hidden services portable?
Yes, the .onion address stays the same no matter what network you're using to connect to the Tor network.
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SSH only for onion network
To achieve this, just change your SSH configuration so it only binds to 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0, so it can only be accessed by local processes.
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How do I host multiple hidden services in my server?
You need to add a server entry in your Nginx config file for each service. For example, with two hidden services your config file might look something like:
server {
listen 127.0.0.1:<...
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How to use FTP with Tor?
You need to make sure that these lines exist in the serverside torrc configuration:
HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/ftp-service/
HiddenServicePort 21 127.0.0.1:21
You should also make sure you use ...
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How do I add the DuckDuckGo .onion version to the Tor Browser search providers?
I've followed docksmouth and antiplex's good guide above. You can now install directly from the link below, my source code is on Github.
Go to in Tor Browser http://www.andrewparadi.com/torduckgo/
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How does the tor hash-password option work?
Here's a quick text explanation on how the password hash generator in Tor works:
Obtain 8 random bytes from the system as Salt
Append the bytes of the user specified password to the salt
Repeat this ...
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How does the tor hash-password option work?
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/control-spec.txt#n3007
If the 'HashedControlPassword' option is set, it must contain the salted
hash of a secret password. The salted hash is computed ...
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Register .onion as gTLD?
Update 2015
IANA added .onion to the list of Special-Use Domain Names.
This was based on RFC 7686: The ".onion" Special-Use Domain Name.
Tor’s ticket #6116: apply for .onion gTLD at IANA got ...
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Adding/removing hidden services while not affecting the others
It is now possible to create ephemeral onion services via the control port using the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands (added in Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha).
To create a new onion service (the address and ...
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How do I generate .onion hostnames using PHP?
If you are asking about 'specific' urls (or custom urls), so
to do this with PHP you can let php interface for example Scallion on the server you serve php from (or forward the commands to another ...
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Designing P2P application over Tor
"the IP for other users to connect to?"
Onion services don't use IPs. You should use SOCKS5's remote hostname functionality, this hands over the hostname to Tor and will ensure you do not ...
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Does deepnet have only 7100 onion sites?
Your calculation is not fully correct. The hidden service address is encoded in Base32, which means there are 32 characters available. So there are 32^16=1.208925819614629174706176×10^24 addresses ...
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