Tor rendezvous specification

1. What is Tor hidden services?
2. Which tool extract onion links from Tor hidden services and identify illegal activities?
3. How does onion DNS work?

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.

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.

How does onion DNS work?

onion addresses by sending the request through the Tor network. The purpose of using such a system is to make both the information provider and the person accessing the information more difficult to trace, whether by one another, by an intermediate network host, or by an outsider.