Torgeek
- What is Tor hidden services?
- Are Tor hidden services secure?
- Which tool extract onion links from Tor hidden services and identify illegal activities?
- What is onion v3?
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 onion v3?
Onion v3 is the new next-generation Tor Onion Services specification. The most noticable change is the increase in address length, however Onion v3 uses better cryptography, ECC (eliptic curve cryptography) rather than RSA, and has an improved hidden service directory protocol.
