Collaborate Disseminate
via Lucian Armasu, writing at Tom’s Hardware, comes news of Project Fusion, a partnership – if-you-will of the Tor Project and Mozilla, in an effort to provision enhanced privacy and security to the Open Source browser. Today’s Must Read!
The post TOR… Continue reading TOR, Mozilla Cozy Up
I am attempting to run a simple tor relay node in my Fedora server (latest version). When I run systemctl status tor I receive the following.
Your server (PUBLICIP:9030) has not managed to confirm that its DirPort is reachab… Continue reading Tor Relay can not confirm ORPort or DirPort is reachable [migrated]
From what I have read so far from the internet, in order to use the hidden service, the hidden service contacts random TOR relays and sends the public key to them. The hidden service also signs a hidden service descriptor and… Continue reading Do Tor relays require knowledge of the real IP address of a hidden service, to enable routing to it?
From what I have read so far from the internet, in order to use the hidden service, the hidden service contacts random TOR relays and sends the public key to them. The hidden service also signs a hidden service descriptor and… Continue reading Do Tor relays require knowledge of the real IP address of a hidden service, to enable routing to it?
I am trying to understand the Tor anonymity process. I figure out that Onion routing is the concept which makes it more impressive. So if I am correct list of Onion routers(OR’s) are loaded on client and payload is encrypted … Continue reading Tor onion routing process
With the growing number of cyber attacks and breaches, a significant number of companies and organisations have started Bug Bounty programs for encouraging hackers, bug hunters and researchers to find and responsibly report bugs in their services and get rewarded.
Following major companies and organisations, the non-profit group behind Tor Project – the largest online anonymity network that
Continue reading Tor Launches Bug Bounty Program — Get Paid for Hacking!
Nearly two years to the day since Andrew Lewman quit his job as executive director of Tor, the anonymity software meant to shield users from government intervention, he found himself rushing between meetings with European law enforcement. Boosted by endorsements from internet activists like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, Lewman had been at the helm of Tor as it became synonymous with internet user privacy. Now, as the newly minted vice president of dark web intel firm OWL Cybersecurity, his meetings with governments have gone from educating officials on how people use Tor to helping law enforcement investigate criminal activity occurring on Tor. As Lewman spoke to CyberScoop last month in between two of those meetings, it became clear that his perspective on the software has shifted. “What’s changed most about Tor is the drug markets have taken over,” Lewman said. “We had all these hopeful things in the beginning but ever since Silk Road has proven you […]
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I was recently invited to join a hidden bulletin board. In the note that was sent to me about it, the sender specified that the URL given to me was unique to me. A friend from Reddit was sent the same invitation bearing a dif… Continue reading Why would an .onion have different URLs for different users? [migrated]
Goal:
Deliver a message along a given routing path ABC with three nodes/steps A, B, and C.
Generate a secret out of the path info and encapsulate it in the message.
The path secret should be locally verified at each step…. Continue reading any encryption technique to use for constant-size path secret construction and verification?
I understand how a Tor client connects to a hidden service, but can anyone explain to me how long a rendezvous point is used?
According to numbers 10-16 on this post on Tor stack exchange, the client determines the rendezvo… Continue reading How often does a Tor change rendezvous point with hidden service? [migrated]