I'm new to tor, trying to understand some stuff.
I understand the .onion TLD is not an officially recognized TLD, so it's not
resolved by normal DNS servers. The FAQ seems to say that tor itself resolves
these, not to an IP address, but to a hidden site somehow.
When I look at
26. Jan 2016 18:37 by a55de...@opayq.com:
> A CA will not validate a '.onion' address since it's not an official TLD
> approved by ICANN.
>
I understand that.
> The numbers aren't random. From Wikipedia:
> "16-character alpha-semi-numeric hashes which are automatically generated
>
Juha, thank you for identifying the real and fake sites.
This re-raises the question, when you get a URL from somewhere, how do you
know it's the real one? Which upon further thought requires definition of
"the real one." If two guys on the internet both claim to be John Doe, how is
it