Multiple Tor hidden services

1. What is Tor hidden services?
2. Are Tor hidden services secure?
3. Which tool extract onion links from Tor hidden services and identify illegal activities?
4. What is Rendezvous point in Tor network?

What is Tor hidden services?

Tor hidden service allow users to publish their service without revealing their identity (IP address). • Users can connect to this service using rendezvous point without knowing the publisher of service and revealing their identities.

Are Tor hidden services secure?

Yes. This is different case from communicating with a server on Internet. Because your Tor node can verify the authenticity of the hidden service private key (by using the hash from its . onion name), it is possible to securely encrypt the information end-to-end.

Which tool extract onion links from Tor hidden services and identify illegal activities?

TorBot [17], an open source intelligence tool, is used to crawl the dark web content based on the onion link extracted in the above step.

What is Rendezvous point in Tor network?

The rendezvous point makes one final verification to match the secret strings from you and service (the latter also comes from you but has been relayed through the service). The rendezvous point simply relays (end-to-end encrypted) messages from client to service and vice versa.