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What's the advantage of connecting to an onion address over a regular domain through Tor?
See this for the advantages of hidden services and how the protocol works.
When not using hidden services, Tor just functions as an encrypted proxy (because there is an "exit node" to access ...
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Is it possible to spy on Tor browser within local network?
This answer is based on the assumption that the adversary is able to monitor the traffic to/from your device, but has not compromised your device.
In that case, the adversary may be able to see that ...
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What's the advantage of connecting to an onion address over a regular domain through Tor?
When accessing a site by a standard domain name (such as https://duckduckgo.com) through https over TOR - your connection is routed through a TOR exit node which makes a connection to the site's ...
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How to check if you are navigating anonymously
You should look into TOR browser if you're looking to browse the web for the most part anonymously. It's a little more beginner friendly than tails.
To answer your question directly, yes, the easiest ...
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Few Questions About Tor Hidden Services
According to this, when you connect to a hidden service using tor you
go through 6 nodes instead of 3... why?
To hide the hidden service IP address in case the rendezvous point is under adversary ...
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Onion Routing Network: Analyzing the size of the encrypted message to determine distance along a circuit
You're not wrong (except for The Key being deduced part) but the approach is meaningless.
You are implicitly assuming information you don't have to solve a problem that doesn't exist. I'll try to ...
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Onion Routing Encryption
Your assumption is correct. When a client sends a request to an onion service, it first makes a connection to the first relay in the circuit, then sends a payload to this first relay. The first ...
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Tor: is a relay cell's header also onion-encrypted?
In addition to the circuit encryption layer, each individual link between two relays is encrypted with TLS. This hides the contents of the encrypted circuit (including the header) from any ...
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Tor: How does entry nodes communicate with middle nodes? How does middle nodes communicate with exit nodes?
Tor v4 supports TLS 1.3 for connections to relays. In TLS 1.3, session keys are generated using ECDHE, for perfect forward secrecy.
Indeed, if you randomly choose a TOR relay from the list of TOR ...
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How to check if you are navigating anonymously
Correct, you just internet search for "what is my ip". You are looking to see if that number is different than your expected home IP address. To get your home IP address, you might check on ...
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Tor Hidden Service In-Depth Questions
To add to the answer above:
If b. is true, then the client and hidden service hoster don't
communicate outside of the rendezvous point, becuase it's unsafe... So
how do they find out which ...
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Tor Hidden Service In-Depth Questions
Another way I have interpreted this is that the client, nor Tor, needs to know the real IP address of the hidden service hoster, since they only communicate through a rendezvous point, and they both ...
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