Retrieving hidden service descriptors

1. What are hidden services on Tor?
2. What are Tor descriptors?
3. What are hidden services?
4. How does hidden service work?

What are hidden services on Tor?

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.

What are Tor descriptors?

Parsing for Tor server descriptors, which contains the infrequently changing information about a Tor relay (contact information, exit policy, public keys, etc). This information is provided from a few sources... The control port via 'GETINFO desc/*' queries. The 'cached-descriptors' file in Tor's data directory.

What are hidden services?

Servers configured to receive inbound connections only through Tor are called hidden services. Rather than utilizing a server's IP address (and thus its network location,) a hidden service is accessed through its .

How does hidden service work?

Any hidden service requires that any citizen executes the rendezvous protocol to contact the service. This protocol guarantees that the citizen accesses the service without having knowledge of server's IP address. While the citizen is using Tor, the service does not know citizen's IP address.