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Contents 1 Hidden services 2 Fair use rationale for Image:Tor-logo.png 3 .onion? 4 Inpsosible

[edit] Hidden services

I'm trying to understand how hidden services can actually hide the server. In order to use a hidden service, the tor path must end at the final server, right? So the machine that is building up the path / initiating the request has to be able to know who to put in the final stage, and so knows who the last router, and the host of the hidden service actually is.

Right?

Nope; the hidden service builds an anonymous circuit to each of a set of medium-lived "introduction points," and advertises these. When the client wants to start talking to the server, it builds an announymomus circuit to one of these introduction points, and negotiates a rendezvous point to which the server and the client can both connnect. At no point does the client need to learn the server's location. I've added a link to the technical spec in case people want more details on how it works. -- Victor Lighthill 16:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

It might be a good idea to either expand this article or create a new article that explains Tor Hidden Services more in-depth. --Maetrics 00:18, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Tor-logo.png

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BetacommandBot 04:36, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] .onion?

Wow, now I've seen everything. Blue Mirage | Comment 09:26, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Are there any open web proxies/anonymizers capable of browsing .onion domains? H64 (talk) 21:20, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inpsosible

.onion sites are imposoble to find. can any one give me or send me to a list of sites. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.220.173.94 (talk) 02:13, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I've added a link to the Tor article which has some .onion hosts. If you're not on the TOR network, you won't be able to connect to them. If you are on the TOR network, connecting to them will be slower than usual because of the added hops.--Maetrics 22:25, 9 October 2007 (UTC)