New form of hidden service domains and other news
V3 concealed expert services With a lot of people today asking yourself why all the quick v2 concealed service domain names stopped working, we will consider to make clear this in this shorter but thorough posting. So what does an .onion name do? It will allow you join to a concealed web-site on the Tor network. But in order for that to function, the concealed website has to authenticate ownership of the concealed sites domain to the Tor network. Now the problem with the short area names was, that the cryptographic energy of the fundamental math behind them was not solid enough. The extended area names have a more complex cryptography guiding them and are thus far more safe and more challenging to spoof. The technological know-how of the Tor community also acquired upgraded and servers operating the v3 domains have a far better DDOS safety and other benefits. The Tor challenge seems to continue on to strengthen the hidden web-site network, right after several years ...