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I couldn't agree more. I run a number of hidden services on Tor. That's because for every website I create it's a simple thing to make it a tor hidden service t
by superkuh 7y ago
I couldn't agree more. I run a number of hidden services on Tor. That's because for every website I create it's a simple thing to make it a tor hidden service too. My ham radio and science hobby websites are in no way, "dark". I link to them (and vice versa) from my clearweb sites and host from my home connection/IP.
Plus on Tor you actually own your domain rather than lease it on the whim of some company easily pressured by political and social winds.
- mpfundstein 7y agoHow do you own it ?
- hiccuphippo 7y agoYou generate a public/private keypair for your service. Your domain is a short hash of your public key. Whomever owns the private key, owns the domain name.
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- Diederich 7y agoYour domain is a predictable derivative of your hidden node's key, which is randomly generated. It's cryptographically impossible for the same domain to be created more than once.
- creatornator 7y agoNot impossible, just unlikely. Collisions can exist in theory in any hashing algorithm (though it may be a 2^2048 large address space or something)
- Dylan16807 7y agoWhich is what "cryptographically impossible" means. Even with all the computation on the planet for a million years you can't get a glimmer of a chance.
- superkuh 7y agoYup. Further, you can generate billions of keys until you find one where the public key matches some sequence you define beforehand. I brute forced one that starts with "superkuh". It only takes some tens of minutes to an hour or two on a GPU from 2010. As long as you keep the private keys private you get traffic to that public key and "own" the domain.
- mdip 7y agoInteresting. I've never thought to host my web sites on Tor. I don't have very many that are strictly "mine" but that'd be something interesting to do if only to understand a little more about Tor.