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Hidden sites and two-way anonymity - Tor Browser Tutorial
From the course: Exploring Tor and the Dark Web
Hidden sites and two-way anonymity
- [Instructor] Hidden sites are one of the most well-known services provided by Tor, and they're what people generally refer to when they speak of the dark web. Hidden sites are web servers running on the internet that route all of their communications through the Tor Network. Users trying to access a hidden site connect to it through Tor, but they access it in an indirect fashion that provides two-way anonymity. The user does not know the true IP address of the hidden site, and the hidden site does not know the true IP address of the user. To create these links, hidden sites use special URLs known as Onion addresses. The Onion address is a randomly generated alpha numeric address that uniquely identifies the web server and takes the place of a normal domain name. We'll look more at Onion addresses in the next video. Let's talk first about how someone goes about creating a hidden site. First, they build a web server just like they would if they were building a normal web server on the…
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