Here is a primer on TOR Hidden Services: https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en
The above article has a link to a more detailed how-to, as well as a whitepaper addressing the design of the service. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Egli" <ddavide...@gmail.com> To: "Provo Linux Users Group" <plug@plug.org> Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 5:20:14 AM Subject: Website only visible via TOR? Hey all, I have a question that I can't figure out. Perhaps my Google foo isn't strong enough, or maybe I'm just starting from a faulty idea. I was reading an article in a magazine about the FBI shutdown of that Bitcoin marketplace site "The Silk Road", and it aid that this site was only accessible to those running TOR. Now maybe this is my faulty starting point, but I was under the impression that TOR only created a new outbound route, not that dissimilar to IP masquerading. If that's the case, how on earth would you create a site that is only accessible via TOR? I thought TOR would only work for outbound web communications. At least, that's how the Vidala bundle seemed to me when I looked at it, ten years ago or so. I haven't really thought of it since then, but this article really made me raise my eyebrows. And even if you did have a site that was TOR only, how would you get word out about it. After all, the search engines won't post anything about it. They can't see it when it's TOR only. So I would guess it just has to be word of mouth? This is just things that I've been thinking of for a few days now, and they've left me confused. Any help in understanding this is appreciated. --- Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
