V3 concealed services
With quite a few folks thinking why all the short v2 hidden service domain names stopped doing work, we will try out to reveal this in this short but thorough write-up.
So what does an .onion name do?
It will let you hook up to a hidden internet site on the Tor network. But in order for that to do the job, the hidden website has to authenticate possession of the hidden web pages area to the Tor community.
Now the problem with the short area names was, that the cryptographic power of the fundamental math behind them was not strong more than enough.
The long domain names have a far more sophisticated cryptography behind them and are for that reason far more protected and more challenging to spoof.
The engineering of the Tor network also obtained upgraded and servers jogging the v3 domains have a superior DDOS safety and other benefits.
The Tor challenge appears to keep on to make improvements to the hidden web-site network, immediately after yrs of not performing much to help admins of hidden expert services to mitigate DDOS attacks or deanonymization attempts.
We switched to a new server again
As you might have found, in the the latest weeks the site of the Hidden Wiki was not as steady as it utilized to be.
We have mitigated this and moved the web-site to a new server with additional resources and a lot quicker network.
We hope the downtime we experienced did not bring about much too significantly hassle for everyone.
And we will make certain that in the future we preserve the web-site as secure as it was in the previous.
We would like to thank our supplier for
Some other news about links on the Concealed Wiki
The dark internet is continually shifting, and with it the Hidden Wiki.
We therefore determined to fall the previous v2 .onion web-sites from the principal website page.
Considering the fact that the previous Tor browser update, the previous v2 sites are no more time supported and will halt operating.
So it will make no perception to list them any more.
We will instead include more new hidden expert services in the upcoming, so test back from time to time.