V3 hidden providers

With numerous people questioning why all the brief v2 hidden services domain names stopped performing, we will consider to clarify this in this shorter but thorough short article.

So what does an .onion name do?

It will permit you join to a concealed web page on the Tor community. But in purchase for that to do the job, the concealed site has to authenticate possession of the hidden internet sites domain to the Tor network.

Now the trouble with the shorter area names was, that the cryptographic toughness of the underlying math at the rear of them was not sturdy enough.

The very long area names have a more elaborate cryptography guiding them and are consequently additional protected and tougher to spoof.

The technologies of the Tor community also got upgraded and servers jogging the v3 domains have a superior DDOS safety and other benefits.

The Tor challenge appears to continue to increase the hidden web page community, following several years of not accomplishing a lot to support admins of hidden products and services to mitigate DDOS assaults or deanonymization tries.

We switched to a new server once again

As you may well have found, in the new months the web site of the Hidden Wiki was not as secure as it applied to be.

We have mitigated this and moved the internet site to a new server with far more means and faster network.

We hope the downtime we had did not lead to far too considerably difficulties for anybody.

And we will make guaranteed that in the foreseeable future we preserve the website as secure as it was in the past.

We would like to thank our supplier for
Some other news about hyperlinks on the Hidden Wiki

The dark world-wide-web is consistently altering, and with it the Concealed Wiki.

We therefore decided to fall the old v2 .onion sites from the key web site.

Considering the fact that the final Tor browser update, the previous v2 web sites are no longer supported and will halt doing work.

So it makes no feeling to checklist them any longer.

We will as a substitute include much more new hidden providers in the foreseeable future, so test back again from time to time.