New style of hidden assistance domains and other information

V3 concealed services

With numerous folks wanting to know why all the limited v2 hidden services area names stopped doing work, we will attempt to clarify this in this small but comprehensive short article.

So what does an .onion name do?

It will let you connect to a concealed website on the Tor community. But in buy for that to function, the concealed website has to authenticate possession of the concealed web pages area to the Tor network.

Now the challenge with the quick area names was, that the cryptographic energy of the underlying math at the rear of them was not solid more than enough.

The very long domain names have a much more advanced cryptography driving them and are for that reason much more safe and harder to spoof.

The technological innovation of the Tor network also acquired upgraded and servers managing the v3 domains have a better DDOS defense and other advantages.

The Tor challenge appears to continue to strengthen the concealed internet site community, just after many years of not doing substantially to assist admins of hidden services to mitigate DDOS assaults or deanonymization attempts.

We switched to a new server all over again

As you may perhaps have recognized, in the new weeks the web page of the Hidden Wiki was not as stable as it used to be.

We have mitigated this and moved the internet site to a new server with a lot more sources and a lot quicker community.

We hope the downtime we experienced did not induce much too a great deal difficulty for any person.

And we will make certain that in the upcoming we preserve the web page as secure as it was in the previous.

We would like to thank our service provider for

Some other news about one-way links on the Hidden Wiki

The darkish world wide web is consistently shifting, and with it the Concealed Wiki.

We consequently resolved to fall the previous v2 .onion web pages from the main website page.

Considering that the previous Tor browser update, the previous v2 web pages are no lengthier supported and will cease functioning.

So it helps make no feeling to list them anymore.

We will in its place include more new concealed companies in the potential, so check back from time to time.